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Avoiding the Torture Taint: Advice from Military Lawyers

Even as they worked out details of how interrogation techniques widely regarded as torture would be used on detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Pentagon officials sought to keep the blood off Defense Department hands

By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

Before the Pentagon’s detainee interrogation policy was finalized in 2002, military officials — both supporters and opponents of the controversial techniques it condoned — concerned themselves primarily with protecting their organizations from scrutiny rather than with preventing the techniques from being instituted in the first place. One senior Pentagon official even recommended removing detainees from the U.S. detention facility in… return to article

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    When this nation started to debate the issue of using torture, we lost any kind of status of being above it.  What a sad national commentary to bequeath to my children and their children.  We have been brought low by those within our own society.  Bin Laden didn’t even have to try.

    United States Posted by bootsrey on Jun 29, 2008 at 7:06 PM
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