I tried to do a poll on this over a year ago -- miserable failure. So I will start from the other direction -- querying you first -- and build a poll from there.

Please contribute your thoughts on:

1. What are permissable interrogation techniques/conditions of confinement? (Please name some specifics here -- part of soliciting the details is to note what one person means as opposed to another when using a given term).

2. What techniques are always inappropriate (what is torture)?

3. What techniques are conditionally appropriate (if any)?

4. Are different techniques/levels of severity appropriate when dealing with different suspects/subjects? E.G. domestic alleged and convicted criminals, foreign nationals accused of a crime, enemy combatants, irregular enemy combatants, terrorists, suspected terrorists etc.

5. What larger Law/Treaty/Cultural Norms do you see as relevant to this discussion, if any?

Feel free to cite sources in support.

Thanks in advance for your assistance?