Steven Kleinman

Steven Kleinman is an officer in the United States Air Force Reserve and a trainer of interrogators.cite news
url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gzeJSjy6c-Fluyb10j4VafjogkYwD93DGA200
title=Officer cites abusive US interrogations in Iraq| publisher=Associated Press
author=Pamela Hess
date=2008-09-25
accessdate=2008-09-25
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fap.google.com%2Farticle%2FALeqM5gzeJSjy6c-Fluyb10j4VafjogkYwD93DGA200&date=2008-09-25 mirror]

Kleinman sat on a panel commissioned to give advice on new interrogation rules.cite news
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/30/news/intel.php
title=Advisers call U.S. interrogation methods 'amateurish'
publisher=International Herald Tribune
author=Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti

date=2007-05-30
accessdate=2008-09-25
quote= ]

Kleinman testified before a committee of the United States Senate about the use of interrogation techniques which exceeded those allowed by law.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504298.html
title=Air Force Instructor Details Harsh Interrogations: Colonel Tells Senate Panel How U.S. Training Program Was Adapted for Use Against Iraqi Detainees
publisher=Washington Post
author=Jody Warnick
date=2008-09-26
accessdate=2008-09-26
quote=In dramatic testimony before a Senate panel yesterday, he gave a rare account of how the Pentagon adapted an Air Force training program to squeeze information from captured Iraqis. ]

In 2003 Kleinman lead a team of intelligence analysts assigned to provide training in interrogation techniques to GIs who had no experience with interrogation who were to fill the new need for new interrogators in Iraq.

On November 8 2007 Kleinman testified before a committee of the US House of Representtivescite news
url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR511772007
title=Slippery slopes and the politics of torture
publisher=Amnesty Interational
author=
date=2007-11-09
accessdate=2008-09-25
quote= ] [cite news
url=http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/Kleinman071108.pdf
title=STATEMENT BEFORE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES HEARING ON TORTURE AND THE CRUEL, INHUMAN, AND DEGRADING TREATMENT OF DETAINEES: THE EFFECTIVENESS AND CONSEQUENCES OF “ENHANCED” INTERROGATION
publisher=United States Congress
author=Steven Kleinman
date=2007-11-08
accessdate=2008-09-25
quote= ] ::

Kleinman used to conduct SERE training.cite news
url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-09-25-iraq-abuse_N.htm?csp=34
title=Military interrogator details new Iraq abuses
publisher=USA Today
author=
date=2008-09-25
accessdate=2008-09-25
quote= ] His team was sent to Iraq, to train interrogators, even though his team usually trained GIs how to resist the kinds of coercive interrogation GIs had been subjected to in the past.

Kleinman has published criticisms of the Bush administration's policy on interrogation. [cite news
url=http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&Abuse has no place in interrogation policyaskthisid=00355
title=The flawed thinking of the administration's torture advocatesAbuse has no place in interrogation policy
publisher=The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
author=Steven Kleinman
date=2008-08-07
accessdate=2008-09-25
quote= ] [cite news
url=http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Background.view&backgroundid=272
title=Abuse has no place in interrogation policy
publisher=The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
author=Steven Kleinman
date=2008-07-29
accessdate=2008-09-25
quote= ]

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