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...Caroline Fredrickson, the legislative director of the ACLU, said that she and other civil liberties advocates plan to meet with the President-elect's transition team soon. "We are very concerned about something that would go in a different direction" from the field manual, she said. "But I think Sen. Obama has been very clear about what direction he is going...
...Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, another Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, told the New York Times this week that he was open to discussing CIA techniques not included in the Army manual, as long as they were "legal, humane and noncoercive." "Just because the Army Field Manual is the best available manual, doesn't mean we can't do better," explained Jennifer Hoelzer, a spokesman for Wyden...
...Under current law and policy, the CIA has a secret list of approved interrogation techniques distinct from the Army manual. But at the same time, the agency is prohibited by law from using techniques that are "cruel, inhuman or degrading." In recent years, the Bush Administration has interpreted those terms as permitting techniques like "waterboarding", an approach that is widely considered torture, in which detainees experience simulated drowning. The CIA has since said that it has suspended the use of this particular technique, though earlier this year Bush vetoed a bill requiring the CIA to operate under the field manual...
...possibility of departing from the field manual standard comes at a critical time. Senior members of Obama's transition staff, including future White House counsel Greg Craig, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder and Democratic Senate staffer Mary DeRosa, have been holding wide-ranging meetings to gather opinions about interrogation policy. Obama does not require Congress's approval to pull back on Bush's current interrogation policies, and an executive order reversing them could be released as early as next January...
...would not want used by an enemy on American citizens, a principle known as the "Golden Rule." Several members of the group said they would be open to developing a new government-wide standard, as long as it only permitted techniques similar to those allowed in the field manual. "I think the field manual is fine, but I understand agency jealousies," said retired Admiral John Hutson, who is a member of the group. "What I am bound to is a single standard, and that that standard be the golden rule...