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Sources: Obama Ready To End Harsh Interrogations
Yahoo News / AP ^ | 01/16/2009 | EagleUSA

Posted on 01/16/2009 1:10:13 PM PST by EagleUSA

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans.

The proposal Obama is considering would require all CIA interrogators to follow conduct outlined in the U.S. Army Field Manual, the officials said. The plans would also have the effect of shutting down secret "black site" prisons around the world where the CIA has questioned terror suspects — with all future interrogations taking place inside American military facilities.

However, Obama's changes may not be absolute. His advisers are considering adding a classified loophole to the rules that could allow the CIA to use some interrogation methods not specifically authorized by the Pentagon, the officials said.

The new rules would abandon a part of President George W. Bush's counterterrorism policy that has been condemned internationally.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhocia; bhogwot; cowardice; enemies; interrogation; pandering; weakling; weakness
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Make them sit in the Comfy chair. That will make em talk.

you could always prod them with soft cushions...

61 posted on 01/16/2009 3:04:22 PM PST by jdub
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To: Badeye

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62 posted on 01/16/2009 3:18:18 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: Badeye; rocksblues; Gator113; johnthebaptistmoore; alarm rider
Obama is going to get a lot of people killed.

Unless one of ours gets killed for every one of theirs, it's a disproportionate response, as seen by the U.N. That, too, will soon be made illegal under international law.

Though you laugh, a U.N. treaty 0bambi may well adopt could wreak all kinds of havoc on the US citizenry. We will almost certainly "get L.O.S.T."

HF

63 posted on 01/16/2009 3:33:52 PM PST by holden
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To: EagleUSA

We sure do not want to hurt anyones feelings


64 posted on 01/16/2009 3:36:20 PM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: EagleUSA

Obama - TOUGH ON TAXPAYERS, EASY ON TERRORISTS.


65 posted on 01/16/2009 11:31:43 PM PST by WOSG (Oppose Big Govt spending - no bailouts, no boondoggles, no earmarks)
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