Rumsfeld Defends Rules for Prison

[wroberts189]

Lots of good info in this. Have not seen it posted yet..


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22472-2004May12?language=printer

snip...

"Most of the things on the list that require approval from the commanding general seem to be coercive to the extent they aren't just lifestyle changes," said Miles Fischer, who heads the New York bar association's committee on military affairs and justice. "Any stress position is coercive."

Kenneth Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, said the U.S. interrogation rules for Iraq "look like someone tried carefully to avoid torture but forgot about the parallel rule against cruel and inhumane treatment." He called those U.S. techniques that require special approval "blatantly illegal."

[Nlighten1]

1. Wouldn't it be nice if that read...

"Rumsfeld defends rules FROM prison"?