Sources: Obama Ready To End Harsh Interrogations

Yahoo News / AP ^ | 01/16/2009 | EagleUSA

[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.

[jdub]

Make them sit in the Comfy chair. That will make em talk.

you could always prod them with soft cushions...

[Gator113]

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[holden]

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

[Piquaboy]

We sure do not want to hurt anyones feelings

[WOSG]

Obama - TOUGH ON TAXPAYERS, EASY ON TERRORISTS.