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[Lt. General Randall M. Schmidt, Author of "Schmidt Report"] To our knowledge there was a considerable amount of communication up and down the chain. [Professor Alfred McCoy, Author of "A Question of Torture"] As you know, from General Schmidt's report, he concluded that these techniques ... individually did not constitute torture. But he said that the sum of these techniques ... [Lt. General Randall M. Schmidt, Author of "Schmidt Report"] The cumulative effect of simultaneous applications of numerous, authorized techniques had abusive and degrading impact on the detainee. U.S. ARMY DECLINED TO DISCIPLINE GEN. MILLER [Narrator] And he recommended that General Miller be disciplined. [Professor Alfred McCoy, Author of "A Question of Torture"] But he said it did not constitute torture. [Lt. General Randall M. Schmidt, Author of "Schmidt Report"] We made a distinction between what torture and inhumane treatment would be, given the general guidelines, and then what might be abusive and degrading. Something might be degrading, but not necessarily torture. And it may not be inhumane. It may be humiliating, but it may not be torture. No torture, no physical pain injury. There was a safe, secure environment the entire time.
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