BUSH REWRITES ARMY FIELD MANUAL TO SKIRT TORTURE LEGISLATION
With Congress on the verge of passing the sweeping McCain Anti-Torture Amendment, the Bush administration, in their typical devious style, has moved to get around the proposed rules should they become law. The McCain amendment would make the Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation the standard for questioning subjects. That manual explicitly prohibits the use of "coercive interrogation techniques."
Under the radar of mainstream media soundbites, the Pentagon went around McCain by simply rewriting the manual.
For the first time in thirteen years, the Pentagon approved "a 10-page classified addendum to a new Army field manual" that "would help teach [interrogators] how to walk right up to the line between legal and illegal interrogations."
According to one official: "This is a stick in McCain's eye. It goes right up to the edge."
Did you really expect anything else?
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