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...illegal techniques, say the Red Cross and other human rights experts, that the Bush Administration has systematically applied at U.S. detention centers around the world. When the President declared his no-holds-barred war on terrorism, top officials announced that the Geneva Conventions wouldn't cover prisoners held at Guantanamo. A soldier involved with intelligence at the base told TIME that interrogators there had been formally briefed on how the treaty didn't apply to their captives. "There were no bright lines on what you could and couldn't do," he says. It was clear that in high-priority cases...
...Patten, U.S. advocacy director of Human Rights Watch. "Now we may be losing the war on terror because of these policies." Reversing field completely carries risks: U.S. intelligence and military officials believe that some of the repudiated tactics have elicited vital intelligence from detainees, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay. Yet the scandal at Abu Ghraib, however revolting, may turn out to be a valuable corrective if it forces Americans to decide how far we are willing to go in the name of protecting ourselves...
...tend to be less malleable than criminals, however. And since the military and government agencies operating abroad function with fewer legal constraints, they take more risks. Last spring the Department of Defense finalized a secret "stress matrix" detailing dozens of tactics that could and could not be used at Guantanamo. The document, described to TIME by a lawyer close to the process, permits sleep and sensory deprivation, among other things, under certain conditions. Depending on the personality of suspects, these strategies can be effective, experts say. The idea is to disorient prisoners to the point at which they lose...
...Ghraib. Sleep deprivation is allowed only with the permission of commanding officers. Prisoners are no longer put in stress positions, says Miller, the current commander of U.S. prisons in Iraq. But Miller also says that sleep deprivation was never used in the 22,000 interrogations he oversaw at Guantanamo Bay, which he ran from November 2002 to March 2004. Other sources who have served at the base tell TIME sleep deprivation was used for certain prisoners. So were forms of humiliation: female guards routinely watched while detainees used toilets or took showers, say two sources who claim to have observed...
Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last month that their clients deserve access to courts to challenge their imprisonment...