Bush, DoD Reject Judge's Torture Claim

[unhappycamper]

Bush, DoD Reject Judge's Torture Claim
January 15, 2009
United Press International

WASHINGTON-- The White House does not condone torture, U.S. President George Bush's spokeswoman said in response to a military official's claim a prisoner was tortured.

"Let me just make sure it's clear and I'll say it on the record one more time, that it has never been the policy of this president or this administration to torture," Dana Perino said during a news briefing Wednesday.

She was responding to a Washington Post interview with Susan J. Crawford, convening authority of military commission, in which she said Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee Mohammed al-Qahtani's interrogation "met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case."

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters Wednesday the "aggressive questioning techniques" used on Qahtani were permissible at the time but "are no longer allowed in the updated Army field manual," Whitman told reporters today.

Whitman said Crawford's decision not to forward Qahtani's case doesn't mean the case ultimately won't go forward.


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[pleah]

1. Didn't bushit just admit to approving torture in one of his

recent interviews? So, they approve torture, but they don't condone it? :crazy:

[DCKit]

2. It's official: They're aliens. Any human would fall down after spinning that much.

Of course, that may explain the death-grip on the podium.