Statement of National Security, Intelligence and Interrogation Professionals

Human Rights First brought together a high-level team of counterterrorism, interrogation, intelligence and national security professionals to develop a statement of principles about Constitutionally permissible interrogations.  Mark was among this group, who stated torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment are illegal, ineffective, and immoral.  Those practices were unconditionally rejected.  The national security professionals published a statement that torture is illegal, ineffective, and counterproductive.