New Restrictions Put in Place for Interrogations

[NVMojo]

oh, duh!!!

February 24, 2005

The Pentagon is implementing new restrictions on detainee interrogations, officials said. For example, said Thomas Gandy, a senior Army intelligence official, military dogs will never be used in interrogations.

Gandy said requirements of the Geneva Convention "are well integrated into the techniques" permitted. He did not describe other limits.


more...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs24.2feb24,1,1430613,print.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=3&cset=true

[leveymg]

1. New restrictions? Burying in ant-hills will now be permitted to restrain

prisoners during interrogations.

It's not torture till their organs fail - By Order of the US Atty Gen.

[NVMojo]

2. ...as long as they don't send dogs in after the ants!!!

[leveymg]

3. Animal cruelty is UnAmerican

We don't want to put the dogs at risk.

[Nimrod]

4. Considering...

...how much attention was paid to the OLD restrictions, I doubt this is going to have much effect. I do also strongly suspect this is a veiled approval of torture to override that obnoxious Geneva Convention once and for all. :P

[Rose Siding]

5. To cover the CIA too- link to more details here

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•Â Officials are emphasizing that guards should not be used in interrogation. Guards can provide some information about prisoners to military intelligence personnel, but they can't participate in interrogations or bring in dogs to assist interrogators.
•Reports by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which monitors prison conditions, will be more widely distributed in the military chain of command.
•CIA officers will have to follow military rules when in military-run prisons, registering detainees as they bring them in. This did not always happen in Iraq, leading to a number of "ghost detainees" who were held off the books.
•The Army is restructuring its military police units, assembling a brigade of soldiers who specialize in running and guarding prisons, particularly in combat zones. That work will be done by 2008.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050224-123713-4409r.htm

Now all of our combat zones in 08 will be able to adhere to the fifty year old standards :shrug: