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To: SilentZ who wrote (260376)	11/15/2005 5:50:06 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578006

z, Still, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? POW's are put into interment camps and held until the end of the war, as per the geneva convention rules which we are basically following. The issue (oft debated) is are they covered by the geneva convention, not whether they commited crimes or war crimes, or even crimes while in camp, which the geneva convention has trial runs to deal with. The torture thing is a no no according the the geneva convention, our troops can't do that (regardless of all the lower ourselves crap) as we signed the document. Anyone caught will be prosecuted. The CIA is not covered by that document, yet the prisoners are in mitiltary custody and I'm sure there's some rule about transfering the prisoners off to other groups - like Japanese medical experiments on WWII POW's etc. Do I think the CIA should use torture? I'm sure you could lay out a case where I'd compromise moral principles, but in general - no.