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| US memo redefines torture |
| 2004-12-31 |
| THE US Justice Department has released a memo to replace a controversial document outlining how to avoid violating US and international terror statutes while interrogating prisoners. In a December 30 memorandum released early today, the department stepped back from an August 2002 memo that said only the most severe types of torture were not permissible under US and international agreements against torture. The new memorandum was more broad in its definition of what could be considered torture, and therefore what was unacceptable under US law and under the UN Convention Against Torture. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 NB -- Airhead didn't refute anything badanov said. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-12-31 6:33:49 PM |
| #7 As recorded by one of the new "fly on the wall" surveillance systems. You know, like the ones we're using in Abbas's office, at AlQHQ, in the Mad Mullah Situation Room, and the 300 palaces in Saudi... [Reduced to save precious pixels - Ed.] "We've been tasked with defining torture. So, who wants to start?" "Sitting through a General Assembly Session resolution debate criticizing Israel at the UN?" "Or a Senate Session? A Leahy, Rockefeller, or Warner speech would do it." "How about being forced to listen to the entire ICC case against Milosevic?" "And not being able to make any sound whatesoever - or go to the john." "Yeah, just 5 minutes of Carla Del Ponte pontification is sheer torture!" "I know! Having sharp bamboo shoots pushed under your fingernails and steel needles plunged in your eyes!" *silence* "Okay, who's the clown?" "I'm the janitor, ma'am, I just came in to empty the wastebaskets." "Fine. Do it and go - we have important work to complete here." *Janitor finishes and leaves* "Okay, where were we?" "How about putting intimate women's apparel on prisoners' heads? The Arabs would go wild!" "Damnit, Johanssen! Don't you read the newspapers?" "Uh, no Madame Chairperson, I can't read. I just watch TV - documentaries mostly, about sharks and the evils of American culture, and, of course, The Pedophilia Channel." "Oh, that's right - sorry. I forgot you were our UN Observer." "Okay - any more ideas? We'd better call a caterer, this is gonna take awhile." |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-31 5:34:00 PM |
| #6 Simple persistant questioning is torture to any liberal. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-31 3:43:34 PM |
| #5 Fleas, liberals same sorta deal. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-31 1:13:44 PM |
| #4 What? No more whippin them with a wet noodle? |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2004-12-31 12:57:08 PM |
| #3 Heinz ketchup. Aris is one, so you can take that to the bank. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-12-31 11:25:58 AM |
| #2 Also liberals eat babies with ketchup, liberals poison your wells, and liberals are the reason for the black plague. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-12-31 10:54:09 AM |
| #1 Liberals never met a dead American they didn't love or a live terrorist they didn't hate. Liberals would rather see 3,000 dead Americans than to muss the hair on one terrorist. If liberals can save the life of just one terrorist and cost the life of just one American, to them it is worth it. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-12-31 4:38:24 AM |