Fox: Bush and "robust interrogation methods of captured enemy combatants"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

FOX..."fair and balanced"...RUSHES in to defend Bush by blurring the line between "torture" and "robust interrogation."

I don't know...I think once you've had a fluorescent light tube shoved up your ass during "robust interrogation," that line's already been CROSSED.

Note to Fox "journalist" Matt Hayes from Karl Rove..."The check is in the mail."

:grr:



When Is It Torture? Is It Ever Legal?
Thursday, December 23, 2004
By Matt Hayes

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142364,00.html

It was reported this week that President Bush signed an executive order (search) authorizing robust interrogation methods of captured enemy combatants (search).

The White House, as well as various agencies, denies the existence of such an order, despite an FBI memo that refers to such an order. But if the executive order does not exist, could the individuals who engaged in such interrogation tactics be held legally culpable if they did so believing their actions were sanctioned by the White House? And does what allegedly occurred at places like Guantanamo Bay actually amount to torture?

No legal body has concluded that the interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay (search) amount to torture, but the administration’s critics are certainly asserting that they do. The chief piece of legislation prohibiting torture is the United Nations Convention against Torture (search), and the United States is one of its signatories. A troubled piece of law from the start, the Convention against Torture, or "CAT," was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1984. The U.S. became a full state party to the Convention in November 1994. In 1998, Congress passed legislation implementing Article 3 of the torture convention as part of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act (search).

Almost any coercive action qualifies as torture under the Convention. It defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted."

[sakabatou]

1. It's not torture when we do it!

[IHeart1993]

2. Can Fox...

...And the orher media outlets that were cheerleaders for this war be tried for war crimes. They're just as guilty.

[spanone]

3. Tell those being tortured that we are 'robustly' interrogating them

they won't mind at all.

[InvisibleBallots]

4. robust interrogation

these people really have a way with euphemisms.