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Administration Seeks to Protect ‘Interrogation’ Methods

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Posted on Sep 7, 2006

Legislation put forward by the Bush administration this week would legalize the same torture techniques recently banned by the Army.  By selectively interpreting the Geneva Conventions, the legislation would allow CIA operatives and even the Army, should it decide to revert to previous rules, to conduct interrogations using unsavory methods.


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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.

“It’s a Jekyll and Hyde routine,” Martin S. Lederman, who teaches constitutional law at Georgetown University, said of the administration’s dual approaches.

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By joey, September 11, 2006 at 6:58 pm #
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G.W. in a interview on Today comes very close to admitting that he broke the law. In discussion with Matt Lauer about N.S.A. ,torture and secret prisons he admitts he knew of FISA and chose to ignore it. We cannot keep calling ourselves a nation of laws if the G.W. keeps bragging about this on national T.V.

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By SPINOZA, September 7, 2006 at 11:23 pm #
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It would seem appropriate to boil Bush and company in oil or perhaps we should try out a host of interrogation techniques from the Inquisition on them.  If we wanted to be merciful to right wingers we would just use a guillotine. The Jacobin’s had it right.

In any case the world is overpopulated by right wingers so it seems like a good idea to do unto right wingers as they would do unto everyone else.

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By kevin99999, September 7, 2006 at 10:54 pm #
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As I suspected..it was meant as an empty PR campaign. The whole world knows that torturing prisoners is and will remain the official policy of the U.S. When the U.S. talks about human rights, the whole world laughs.

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