New Interrogation Rules Set for Detainees in Iraq -NYT

[Rose Siding]

After clashing with Afghan rebels at the village of Miam Do one year ago, American soldiers detained the village's entire population for four days, and an officer beat and choked several residents while screening them and trying to identify local militants, according to a new Pentagon report that was given to Congress late Monday night.

Although the officer, an Army lieutenant colonel attached to the Defense Intelligence Agency, was disciplined and suspended from further involvement with detainees, he faced no further action beyond a reprimand.

The episode, described only briefly in a summary of the report reviewed by The New York Times, was one example of how little control was exerted over some conduct of interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the subject of an exhaustive review just completed by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church, the naval inspector general.

The report finds that early warning signs of serious abuses did not receive enough high-level attention as the abuses unfolded, and that unit commanders did not get clear instructions that might have halted the abuses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/politics/10abuse.html?hp

[MrSlayer]

1. New Rule: NO PICTURES!

How are you going to hide evidence if you document it with pictures and video?

[merwin]

2. They've tried that. They've also tried destroying the evidence.

However, that's the beauty of pictures and video. Cheap copies.

Oh, and picture-phones are good too :)