All of a sudden, like we are doing something right, we got rules:

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DOD outlines guidelines on treatment of detainees


By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, September 7, 2006

ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense officials on Wednesday unveiled guidelines on what is and what is not permissible in detainee interrogations.

A new directive outlines a baseline for treatment for all detainees, incorporating about 95 percent of the recommendations made in the 12 Defense Department investigations since the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal, said Cully Stimson, deputy assistant director of defense for detainee affairs.

“All detainees will be respected as human beings,” the directive says. “They will be protected against threats or acts of violence including rape, forced prostitution, assault and theft, public curiosity, bodily injury and reprisals.”

Toward that end, the new Army Field Manual on interrogations specifically prohibits eight procedures that are deemed cruel and degrading treatment, said Lt. Gen. John Kimmons, Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence.

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