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ACLU Releases New Detainee Docs
The ACLU got its hands on a bunch of previously withheld documents from the State Department, DoJ, and military officials regarding the treatment of detainees. Of note are a summary (.pdf) of investigations into four detainee deaths (including one where an interrogator bashed in a detainee's head with a stove) and a detailed memorandum (.pdf) from Brittain Mallow, the head of Gitmo's Criminal Investigation Task Force, that spells out in minute detail exactly which interrogation techniques are legal—something the Bush Administration has generally found itself unable to do. According to Mallow, acceptable methods include prolonged interviews, interrupted sleep (as opposed to deprivation), deception, incentives, and props (think photos, not stoves). Unacceptable methods include threats, promises that cannot be kept, unnecessary discomfort, and sensory deprivation.
There's still some gray area—although the prohibition on "discomfort" includes "any form of physical contact designed to cause physical discomfort," it's not clear whether it extends to physical abuse. Nonetheless, Mallow's specificity is a welcome respite from the legal bobbing and weaving we've come to expect from administration lackeys.
(h/t Glenn Greenwald)
—Casey Miner
Now let me get ths straight. We catcha terrorist who has "Cut off the head of an American citizen", and put it on the internet, and we are not allowed to DEPRIVE him of sleep..?
What kind of whacked out world are we living in..!!!
Thank GOD our federal agents ahve been given the shoot/kill permission by executive order. Hopefully they will stop bringing these guys to gitmo, and just leave them for the buzards in the field..!!!
BIll
Hey Bill, maybe someday we will catch an actual terrorist. As you know, everyone at "gitmo" is guilty only of being rounded up in a random dragnet. As for your religious faith in executive orders, real patriots believe in the Constitution.
Back to a nasty ignorant troll huh Bill? I knew the pastor comment was a fluke.
Hey mr z,
Instead of talking like a 10yr old, why don't you respond to my comment,..? How can ANYONE rationalize keeping a terrorist from sleeping, as being tourture..?
Don't you think they should be taken care of in the field..?
BIll
Troll boy Bill, there is a need for RELIABLE information, the kind that all experts agree only comes from humane questioning. Of course all you seem interested in is killing random people on the suspicion of terrorist ties which could not be proven by a snipers bullet. Do you think that maybe the reason that so many of these terrorist jack@$$es are cutting peoples heads off is because they see all of us as responsible for random killing capturing and torturing of innocent civilians, instead of just the retarded jack@$$es like you who want this kind of stuff to happen?
Mr z,
I went to the people who have been in combat, from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc... I asked them how they determined if someone was guilty in a combat zone. Without question, they told me that, if they were not women or children, and they were with emeny soldiers, (i.e. the people who are shooting at you), then they were killed on the spot...!!!
I think you have some idea that we are in some chess game and not at WAR.
You do understand that in war the rules of the game change a little from you play ground rules...?
And about cutting off the heads of Americans, i think you should understand taht they want all of us dead. They want sharia law, they want you sister in a burka, and everything that goes with it.
Maybe some day you will learn.
BIll
Bill, who the hell said not to shoot back at some one if they were shooting at you and could be hit with out hurting innocent bystanders? Don't you realize that what you just said is totally unrelated to any previous statements you foolish troll? Don't you see that this is about people that may well have been innocent being captured and tortured to death? Large numbers of the captures of 'enemy combatants' looks to me to be due to tips coming from feuding tribe members seeking retribution and $ not to stop terrorists, and based on your statements you want start busting down doors and blowing peoples heads off based on this kind of faulty information? Yes there are those that want nothing more than to kill all Americans, but most of the people captured and killed in Iraq don't care and just want to live their lives. Of course every time the kind of dumb ass stunt you seem to favor happens several more people are converted from moderate dislike of the US to pure hatred and they resort to terror. Don't you get it your stupid troll BS is why violence in Iraq went spiraling out of control, its why more people in this middle east are willing to resort to terror now than they ever were before the war, and its why the US is in more danger now that it was before.
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