The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book was initially conceived as a project for the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life at Northwestern University. I am deeply indebted to the Brady Program and its director, Laurie Zoloth, for the invitation to spend a year at Northwestern working with the students in the Brady Program and conducting research for this volume. I found the Brady students inspiring, and the faculty at Northwestern could not have been more supportive. Special thanks to Debby and Larry Brady for their generosity and vision in establishing a program designed to foster moral leadership for the future. The Brady students were not merely inspiring in a general way; they pushed me to think much more carefully about the meaning of professionalism. The book has the structure it does largely because of the questions posed by students in the course of one memorable class on professional responsibility. Although the book was conceived in relation to the Brady Program, the foundation for the volume was laid in a seminar that Barney Twiss and I organized, which brought together nine faculty members from the United States and Canada to discuss issues related to the theme, atrocities, humanities, and human rights. I am grateful to the participants in that seminar for the sustained conversation about atrocities and human rights. The participants were Diana Fritz Cates, Simeon Ilesanmi, Travis Kroeker, Hugh LaFollette, June O’Connor, William O’Neill, SJ, John P. Reeder Jr., and Sumner B. Twiss. I am also grateful to John Carroll University for granting the leave that freed me to work with the Brady Program. John Carroll also supported an additional semester’s leave, which allowed me to finish writing the volume. I am especially indebted to Lauren Bowen, Jeanne Colleran, and John Day for supporting the research leave that made the completion of this volume possible. x Acknowledgments The list of friends, colleagues, and students who supported this project is long, and at the risk of missing some names, let me publicly thank the following: Jay and Sue Apple, Kathleen Arbuckle, Don Cozzens, Bryan Evans, Amos Guiora, Gillian Halusker, John Kelsay, Andrew Koppelman , John and Deanne Lentz, Susan Long, Jimmy Menkhaus, Kathy Merhar, Phil Metres, Brad Olson, David Ozar, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Eric Patterson, Mary Jane Ponyik, Jock Reeder, Tom Schubeck, Jurell Sison, John Spencer, Frank Summers, and Cristie Traina. I am also extraordinarily fortunate to have a supportive and loving family. My sister-in-law, Diane Hayford, and her husband, Don Hayford , have been like a sister and brother to me. My children, Sam and Julia, are a source of great joy in my life. They are now old enough not just to tell me I’m wrong, but also to tell me why I am wrong. Having to explain and defend the views set out here has made this a much better book. Given my generally sunny disposition, my spouse, Lisa deFilippis, could not have been thrilled when I started a book on interrogation and torture. Fortunately, she really is an optimistic person. Happily for me, she is also my partner of thirty-three years. Versions of chapters 4 and 9 have been published previously. I am grateful to the Journal of Religious Ethics and the journal Soundings for permission to use some of that material here. ...