New DOD guidelines prohibit waterboarding, use of dogs.
By on Oct 15th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
New DOD guidelines prohibit waterboarding, use of dogs.
The LA Times reports that the Pentagon has issued a new directive on detainee interrogations, explicitly prohibiting the use of dogs in interrogations. The directive also bans techniques taught at the U.S. military’s survival schools (SERE), which, as Steve Aftergood noted, includes waterboarding:
– No dog shall be used as part of an interrogation approach or to harass, intimidate, threaten, or coerce a detainee for interrogation purposes.
– Use of SERE techniques against a person in the custody or effective control of the Department of Defense or detained in a DoD facility is prohibited.
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October 15th, 2008 at 2:34 pmThe horse is already out the barn door. Full prosecutions to the highest possible levels is the only way to regain any international respect.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pmPerfect. The whole torture thing is now confined to the bush administrations time in office. Tied to them like a turd brick.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pmHuge public trials. Allow foreign civilians who have been harmed to testify. There is no rug big enough to sweep this under.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:44 pmNo dogs or waterboarding — unless we really want to use them.
I don’t believe a thing any of them say anymore. Surprise!
October 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pmThey don’t follow LAWS but we believe they’ll follow GUIDELINES.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pmWhat about GOP guidelines? Can they still waterboard Obama?
October 15th, 2008 at 2:51 pmWhat? Not even an Insult Comic Dog? I think the terrorists just won!
October 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pmThay’r a bunch o’ dang libruls at the DOD, I tell ya.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pmLooks like DOD is running from Bush’s torture policy now that the Republicans are about to lose power.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm.
R E M E M B E R:
These new guidelines come AFTER the Administration approved, in writing, the use of these methods which there has been considerable public outcry over yet little oversight and accountability of TORTURE!
You though Michael Jackson perfected the moon walk, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
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October 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pm“Use of SERE techniques against a person in the custody or effective control of the Department of Defense or detained in a DoD facility is prohibited.”
That’s a nice qualification: ‘… in the custody or effective control of the DOD’. I guess it means they can turn over the prisoners to Blackwater or some other rouge group to do whatever the hell they want.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pmAs the father of several dogs (figuratively speaking, I think), I’m pleased to see that DoD is finally seeing the light.
Now if only we could get DoD to stop using dogs in mine-sweeping operations…
October 15th, 2008 at 3:44 pmSo waterboarding by CIA agents is still aces? What about contracting out the “interrogation”? What rules govern that act?
October 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pmOnly the rules of the country to which the “enhanced interrogation” has been outsourced.
I hear places like Morocco and Egypt have some very favorable rules.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:49 pmDiscontinuation of the SERE techniques could be the result of the APA’s recent decision to stop participating in military interrogations. That just leaves the CIA to continue torturing.
http://www.americantorture.com/2008/10/big-victory-apa-informs-bush-no.html
October 15th, 2008 at 4:01 pm#jb
I agree 100%!!!!!! They commited WAR CRIMES. There is no way around it! They have to face prosecution and possible death sqaud like any other war criminal in history since WWII! That is… if the USA’s government regards international respect as important!
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