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Originally Posted by Tempest
I have a feeling there's more to come out about mistreatment and he might be trying to get the rules changed before it happens.
I'm not sure if this has come out in the US, but I was watching our news and they had an ex US solidier on there saying how they would tie up and blindfold the prisoners.. Then somehow or other they'd get them cold and wet and close to hypothermia (they'd constantly take their temperature so they could keep them right on the edge).. Then they'd ask questions.. If they didn't like the answer they'd sick these attack dogs on them.. They had the dogs muzzled. He was saying how he knew he was screwed because while they were doing that, Rumsfield was on TV saying that dogs weren't allowed to be used in interrogations.
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Agree Tempest - don't think we have seen even the tip of the iceberg yet.
Not sure the main problem may lie with troops on the field or in internment camps. There will always be problems with troops, tho, in the current scenario, it does smell like "guidance" from higher up.
Who knows... but think we may see some fairly spectacular accounts of incidents from individuals who ended up being flown to some weird locations and being tortured (and some possibly murdered). For a few years now there have been international agencies recording "incidents" and taking primary and supporting statements from eye-witnesses. Hell knows - could be something yet unpublished by any one of these agencies and where they gave the admin a preview for comment prior to publication.
George certainly has a great desire... and an urgent one, to "apparently" introduce some legal protection for members of the CIA at the moment. Makes you wonder why the CIA need protection if they are behaving in a legitimate manner. It can't be that the President is trying to protect torturers?
Another sideline issue ... is it not about "protecting members of the CIA" and more related to George the "order issuer", where there is a need to cover his own ass and other admin members for "whatever". Immunity from prosecution ceases when his term of office ends - if there is serious shit - there's a chance international orgs may be seeking his ass if all hell broke loose, who knows?
The lid seems tightly shut on the can at the moment and appears as tho the pressure is building inside - the "urgency" is showing - time will tell.