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...admitted car nut, he proudly shows off the vintage cars he keeps in a special area inside the dealership. There, 15 mint-condition cars gleam amid old Skelly gas signs and an antique manual pump frozen at 19 cents a gallon. A juke box features Sinatra, the Ink Spots and Peggy Lee. The colors are spectacular. There's the two-toned gray and salmon '55 Bel Air and the silky green '57 Thunderbird convertible. How could a country look at cars like that and not fall in love...
TIME has obtained a variety of internal memos circulating at the Department of Defense that detail possible rule changes at Gitmo, if the camp and its controversial legal system survive. The proposals - under discussion but not formally adopted - could be included in the Pentagon's official "Manual for Military Commissions," a handbook of rules for the controversial proceedings. What follows are excerpts from those memos...
...Hartmann would apparently like to see at Gitmo if the camp's legal system survives - changes detailed in a variety of internal memos circulating at the Department of Defense that TIME has obtained. The proposals - under discussion but not formally adopted - could be included in the Pentagon's official "Manual for Military Commissions," a handbook of rules for the controversial proceedings. (The former officer overseeing that project reports to Hartmann, who helped select...
...Some advisers have been less clear. John Brennan, a former CIA official who has counseled Obama on intelligence matters, said in August that the use of the field manual was an open question. "Whether the Army Field Manual is comprehensive enough to cover all those tactics and techniques, that's something I think he'd look to his national security advisers for," said Brennan in an August interview with Congressional Quarterly. Last week Brennan withdrew his name from consideration for the top job at the CIA, after an outcry of protest from Obama's liberal supporters. Though he worked...
...Other outside experts in interrogation law have pointed to the considerable gap between what is permitted under the field manual and what is allowed by a reasonable interpretation of laws and treaties. For example, the field manual prohibits a number of psychological ploys, like "threatening to separate parents from children" and "implying harm to the individual or his property," which might otherwise be allowed under the law in certain circumstances...