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Beyond Yoo: Army Field Manual Allows Torture with Drugs by: Valtin Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 21:24:58 PDT (noon - promoted by Nightprowlkitty) Adapted from original post at Firedoglake Sometimes people can be too smart for their own good. According to recent news stories (see Spencer Ackerman's article in the Washington Independent), the Obama administration task force on interrogations is likely to recommend "small, mixed-agency teams for interviewing the most important terrorist targets." Moreover, according to former Deputy Attorney General  and Intelligence Science Board member Philip Heymann: ... interrogators from across the military, CIA, and FBI, would be charged with creating a "syllabus" of best interrogation practices that fall within the boundaries of the U.S. Army Field Manual on Interrogations, which complies with the Geneva Conventions. There's More... :: (3 Comments, 1691 words in story)

How the U.S. Army's Field Manual Codified Torture -- and Still Does by: Valtin Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 15:21:32 PST (noon. - promoted by ek hornbeck) Originally posted at AlterNet, and reposted here with additional links and some minor format changes In early September 2006, the U.S. Department of Defense, reeling from at least a dozen investigations into detainee abuse by interrogators, released Directive 2310.01E. This directive was advertised as an overhaul and improvement on earlier detainee operations and included a newly rewritten Army Field Manual for Human Intelligence Collector Operations (FM-2-22-3). This guidebook for interrogators was meant to set a humane standard for U.S. interrogators worldwide, a standard that was respectful of the Geneva Conventions and other U.S. and international laws concerning treatment of prisoners. While George W. Bush was signing a presidential directive allowing the CIA to conduct other, secret "enhanced interrogation techniques," which may or may not have included waterboarding, the new AFM was sold to the public as a return to civilized norms, in regards to interrogation. There's More... :: (28 Comments, 2783 words in story)