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To: Sig who wrote (93995)	1/6/2005 4:04:06 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793561

how far the military should be allowed to go in interrogation. This is what it is all about. The Taliban/Al Qaeda people are not entitled to POW treatment, they are not signatories to the Geneva convention. If we gave them POW status, we couldn't interrogate them. The memos started with the fact that we would treat them as humanly as POW's, but we would interrogate them. They then went into what methods the interrogators could use. What is at question is the definition of "torture," and there never will be agreement on that issue. The Dems are going to politicize this at the hearings tomorrow. Abu Graib has allowed them to get away with it, and the convenient "leak" of FBI accusations this week will make it even easier.