|
01-23-2009, 02:32 PM | #1 | |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
No end to torture under Obama
http://www.underthecarpet.co.uk/Page...e.php?num=5735
From a clearly political source (World Socialist Website) but worth a read and further investigation. Quote:
|
|
01-23-2009, 02:42 PM | #2 |
Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: So. Cal. U.S.
Posts: 4,205
|
Re: No end to torture under Obama
Obama’s executive order on interrogations says all agencies of the government have to follow the Army Field Manual when interrogating detainees, meaning the CIA can no longer used so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, which have included waterboarding, the use of dogs in questioning, and stripping prisoners.
However, the order also created an interagency commission which will have six months to examine whether to create “additional or different guidance” for non-military agencies such as the CIA. One group that represents detainees, the Center for Constitutional Rights, deemed that an “escape hatch” to potentially allow enhanced interrogations in the future. http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...politico/17841 Obama vowed no torture on his watch, but force-feeding and solitary confinement apparently continue at Guantanamo for now. It’s possible that the 30-day referral to Gates is simply an effort to buy the Obama team time to deal with two Guantanamo practices that some consider torture, or at least inhumane: force feeding and isolation of prisoners. According to detainee lawyers, about two dozen inmates who refuse to eat as a form of protest are currently being force fed, and about 140 are in some form of solitary confinement. Last edited by Dantheman62; 01-23-2009 at 02:45 PM. |
|
|