Wash Post: Pentagon Okayed Tough Questioning Methods

[ringmastery]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11017-2004May8.html

In April 2003, the Defense Department approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permit making detainees disrobe entirely for questioning, reversing normal sleep patterns and exposing prisoners to heat, cold and "sensory assault," including loud music and bright lights, according to defense officials.

The classified list of about 20 techniques was approved at the highest levels of the Pentagon and the Justice Department, and represents the first publicly known documentation of an official policy permitting interrogators to use physically and psychologically stressful methods during questioning.

The use of any of these techniques requires the approval of senior Pentagon officials -- and in some cases, of the defense secretary. Interrogators must justify that the harshest treatment is "militarily necessary," according to the document, as cited by one official. Once approved, the harsher treatment must be accompanied by "appropriate medical monitoring."

"We wanted to find a legal way to jack up the pressure," said one lawyer who helped write the guidelines. "We wanted a little more freedom than in a U.S. prison, but not torture."

[maddezmom]

1. Torture Sanctioned by Pentagon Appointees ((neo-con Doug Feith))

read this link at DU started by Tinoire
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x49554

[Leilani]

2. Interesting points made

in a good article.

The political people at the Pentagon, were in favor of harsher treatment of the prisoners, than were the military people. The military realized that our forces could be mistreated, if they are prisoners.

[Moderator]

3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x541452