Top brass stayed silent on prisoner interrogation techniques

[maddezmom]

NEW YORK (AFP) - Senior defense officials exercised little oversight over interrogation practices at military detention centers in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), according to a highly classified Pentagon (news - web sites) report.




The New York Times said it had obtained a draft summary of a 400-page report by Vice Admiral Albert Church, the naval inspector general, on interrogation techniques at military detention centers in Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq.


By January 2003, military interrogators in Afghanistan were using techniques similar to those that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved for use only at Guantanamo Bay, including stress positions and sleep and light deprivation, the Times said Saturday.


Commanders who submitted a list of interrogation techniques to the military's Joint Staff and Central Command "never heard any complaints," leaving them to interpret that the techniques were acceptable, the report said.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041204/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_prisoners_report&cid=1514&ncid=1480

article goes on to cite Task Force 121...MG Barbara Fast had knowledge of abuse a month before Abu Ghriab was exposed.

[itzamirakul]

1. The silence of the "Lambs"...

That's what I call our Democratic "leaders." I can't recall hearing even one of them come out strongly against these uses of torture.

What the hell are they afraid of? Why aren't they speaking out?

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Joe Biden did...

...however, he also voted for IWR.:grr:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Silence=approval...

Silence=approval=no culpability. Blame the soldiers=cowardice.

And they still voted for ChimpCo???:shrug: