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...least for a while, the use of dogs, nudity, stress positions-that is, torture-against enemy combatants. Indeed, Rumsfeld, who works at a stand-up desk, indicated a desire for at least one more strenuous stress position: "I stand 8-10 hours a day," he scrawled on a memo. "Why is standing limited to 4 hours...
...leaked memos alone do not prove that U.S. officials endorsed the use of torture to extract intelligence from detainees. But they have put the Administration on the defensive. Before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, "This Administration opposes torture," but he refused to release an unclassified memo quoted by the Washington Post that seemed to undercut his words. President Bush, asked whether he signed off on any memos that might have loosened the rules of interrogation, said he did not recall seeing any such documents and that "the authorization I issued was that anything...
...government lawyers began crafting even bolder interpretations of anti-torture laws. A Justice Department memo in August advised the CIA that torturing al-Qaeda terrorists abroad "may be justified," the Washington Post reported last week. In December, Rumsfeld approved a list of 17 interrogation tactics for Guantanamo, including sleep deprivation and "stress" positions. Amid concerns that the tactics violated international law, Rumsfeld withdrew the list a month later and asked for a policy review. He issued a new list in April 2003 that is still in use. According to a former Pentagon official who worked on the review, the final...
...reason why we sign these treaties--to protect my son in the military. That's why we have these treaties, so when Americans are captured, they're not tortured." SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN, in an angry exchange with Attorney General John Ashcroft, during testimony about a Justice Department memo in which lawyers argued the U.S. was not bound by international treaties against torture while interrogating suspected members of al-Qaeda...
...reason why we sign these treaties: to protect my son in the military. That's why we have these treaties, so that when Americans are captured, they're not tortured." SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN, in an angry exchange with Attorney General John Ashcroft, during testimony about a Justice Department memo that argued that the U.S. is not bound by international treaties against torture while interrogating suspected members of al-Qaeda...