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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 11:25 AM
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C.I.A. Allowed to Resume Interrogations (torture)

(like they really had stopped)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/washington/20cnd-intel.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1185034844-r6NH3oshk9rEeec8KrTCJw


After months of behind the scenes wrangling, the White House said Friday that it had given the Central Intelligence Agency approval to resume its use of some harsh interrogation methods in questioning terrorism suspects in secret prisons overseas.

With the new authorization, administration officials said the C.I.A. could now proceed with an interrogation program that has been in limbo since the Supreme Court ruled last year that all prisoners in American captivity be treated in accordance with Geneva Convention prohibitions against humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees.

An executive order signed by President Bush allows the C.I.A. to use some interrogation methods banned for military interrogators but that the Justice Department has determined do not violate the Geneva strictures.
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they do what they want

whose to stop them?
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