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To: Ilaine who wrote (132266)	5/9/2004 10:01:31 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	of 281500

The "grownups" set the policy and should be accountable for the situation at the Abu Ghraib prison. Although the policy was set initially for Guantanamo, it seems reasonable that the same techniques would be authorized for "high value" prisoners is Iraq. washingtonpost.com 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."

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