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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (8043)5/22/2004 10:06:06 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
You see Smithee. I do understand what is lawful and what is not lawful under normal circumstances.

But you know, and you know full well that after 9-11 the ground rules changed. Here in the US the Patriot Act changed the way that law enforcement can conduct an investigation, and changed the rights of people that were detained...right here in the United States. What was unlawful a few months ago suddenly became lawful.

Now we also know that for prisoners of the war on terror, that certain rights known under the Geneva Convention were rendered void. That extreme measures of interrogation were used, including forced nudity, sexual humiliation, beatings, being hooked up to electrical wires, intimidation with guard dogs and other techniques.

It's also clear that Military Intelligence was given the ok to expand these measures to Iraq.

Now for the grunts and PFC's who were told to carry out these measures...you tell me that they should have known better. Well maybe they should have...but the point is they were ordered to do these things...and those orders did come from the highest authorities. This would have to be the case for these methods to have migrated from Gitmo to Abu Ghraib.

It's likely that there will be a cover up of the highest order...I'll bet that Sivits was told to shut up and everything will work out just ducky. Now there's an order I'd likely follow.

Orca
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