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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (13736)	5/26/2004 12:24:34 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

GOVERNMENT HIDES TORTURE CONTRACTORS UNDER INTERIOR DEPARTMENT SCOTT SHANE, BALTIMORE SUN - The U.S. civilian interrogators questioning prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq work not under a military contract but on one from the Department of the Interior, a bureaucratic twist that could complicate any effort to hold them criminally responsible for abuse of detainees or other offenses. The unexpected role of the Department of the Interior, usually associated not with wartime intelligence-gathering but with national parks, grew out of a government plan to cut costs. But in practice, it may have increased costs and reduced scrutiny, said Peter W. Singer of the Brookings Institution. "You're placing a military interrogation task under Smokey the Bear," Singer said. "You can't have good oversight." What's more, legal experts say, contractors for nonmilitary agencies such as the Department of the Interior may be able to escape prosecution for crimes they commit overseas because of an apparent loophole in the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. The law, passed in 2000, applies only to contractors with the Department of Defense - a flaw some members of Congress want to remedy. prorev.com