And Who Is My Neighbour? III

Interrogation Methods Rejected by Military Win Bush’s Support
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: September 8, 2006

Many of the harsh interrogation techniques repudiated by the Pentagon on Wednesday would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by the Bush administration. And the courts would be forbidden from intervening.

The proposal is in the last 10 pages of an 86-page bill devoted mostly to military commissions, and it is a tangled mix of cross-references and pregnant omissions.

But legal experts say it adds up to an apparently unique interpretation of the Geneva Conventions, one that could allow C.I.A. operatives and others to use many of the very techniques disavowed by the Pentagon, including stress positions, sleep deprivation and extreme temperatures.

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Comments

[robert]

Americans & Christians must be so proud to watch this man try to limbo under the Geneva Convention along with such notable paragons of human rights Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea.
If they're not proud now, they sure will be in the future because history is always kind to such types. Just look around and count how many kids named Idi you see running around today.

[david]

I'm so sick of it all. Ichabod.

I'm going to Africa, call me if I'm needed.

sigh.