VanityFair ExposÃ;© On The Bush Administrations Torture Policy »
Posted By Aidenag 6 months, 1 week ago in NewsAs the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantanamo detainee wouldn't talk, the Bush administration's highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army's own Field Manual.
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disraeli6 months, 1 week ago
This is a very good piece, a long read but very worthwhile.
It shows as well as anything the huge gulf that exists between right or wrong and legal or illegal.
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"The Phifer Memo identified the problem: "current guidelines" prohibited the use of "physical or mental torture, threats, insults, or exposure to inhumane treatment as a means of or aid to interrogation." The prohibition dated back to 1863 and a general order issued by Abraham Lincoln. The list of new interrogation techniques turned its back on this tradition."
Given the 140 year history of President Lincoln's general order a little more thought should have been given to the rights and wrongs of the situation rather than what the lawyers can contrive as legal justification.
Shameful.
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engineer6 months, 1 week ago
IMPEACH all of them. Then charge them with treason and as war criminals. Just like Nuremburg
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disraeli6 months, 1 week ago
Ah but they do fall under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. A plain reading of the Convention should have been sufficient, regrettably it was not. The Supreme Court fortunately took a different view than the administration and in its ruling on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the high court said the Bush administration is constrained in its treatment of detainees by the Geneva Convention.
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