Rudy Giuliani has been embellishing his record on torture and "intensive questioning," says former New York City director of emergency management and frequent Giuliani critic Jerry Hauer in a conversation with the Huffington Post.
"If Rudy is suggesting in any way that they used torture or aggressive interrogation in New York City then he is absolutely unfit to be president," Hauer said, "because torture in a local jurisdiction is, first of all, illegal. Secondly, it is inhumane. It is not something that is done at the local level."In an interview over the weekend, Rudy implied that he employed "intensive questioning" as Mayor in order to fight the mafia. Hauer is rejecting those claims outright, saying: "That would have been absolutely disgraceful and a downright violation of everybody's constitutional liberties... even when they caught the terrorists that were going to blow up the subways [in August 1997], obviously there was interrogation but I never heard of anything involving aggressive techniques."
6 November 2007
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