Obama team meets with anti-torture generals

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Obama team meets with anti-torture generals
By Pamela Hess - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Dec 3, 2008 20:50:46 EST

WASHINGTON — A dozen retired generals met with President-elect Barack Obama’s top legal advisers Wednesday, pressing their case to overturn some of the Bush administration’s terrorism-fighting policies.

Obama has criticized practices that he says amount to torturing detainees during interrogations and has promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Among those who met with Eric Holder, Obama’s pick to be attorney general, and Greg Craig, the incoming White House counsel, were Gen. Charles Krulak, a former Marine Corps commandant, and retired Marine Gen. Joseph Hoar, former chief of the Central Command.

“It’s important that the dialogue is going,” Hoar said. “Part of the challenge here is big and philosophical. Part is nuts and bolts. How do you translate the rhetoric of the campaign and the transition period into action?”

The generals would like to see authority rescinded for the CIA to use harsh interrogation methods that go beyond those approved for use by the military; an end to the secret transfer of prisoners to other governments that have a history of torture; and the closing of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/ap_retired_generals_120308/%2e

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1. K&R...

thanks for kicking out the news on these "quiet" mornings.

it's appreciated.

:)