Military Lawyers Say Tactics Broke Rules

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By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 16, 2006

The top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps have told Congress that a number of aggressive techniques used by military interrogators on a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison were not consistent with the guidelines in the Army field manual on interrogations.

Their conclusions are in sharp contrast to the findings of a previous military investigation into allegations of abuse at the U.S. military prison.

The judge advocates general, responding in writing to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee about the treatment of suspected terrorist Mohamed al-Qahtani, found that several techniques used at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be considered violations of interrogation policy because individually they are humiliating or degrading.

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The contradiction of that view by service lawyers highlights the internal debate about the new Army Field Manual, which has been scheduled for release several times but has been held up by high-level administration discussions. Because of a new law written by McCain, the field manual has become the legal standard for all U.S. military interrogation practices, which must not include cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031502299.html

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It is clear that there are many military lawyers who recognize that they or the people under them could be called to account for the behavior *co's sycophants are using at Guantanamo.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. So

the witch hunt begins to catch all those poor grunts following order.

[SeaBob]

2. Mil. lawyers

What do you think will be the fall out from this?