Rumsfeld OK'd harsh treatment
Was I wrong about Donald Rumsfeld? It looks like I was: USATODAY.com - Rumsfeld OK'd harsh treatment. Although the headline makes him look bad, the story doesn't. The "stress position" in question was standing?
Rumsfeld rejected the following: "exposure to cold weather or water; use of a wet towel and dripping water to induce the misperception of suffocation; and the use of scenarios designed to convince a detainee that death or severely painful consequences were imminent for him and/or his family." The interrogation techniques he approved don't remotely resemble torture.
I'd assumed the prisoners at Guantánamo were being kept in dark cells too small to stand up in for months at a time. About a week ago I said to my husband, "Rumsfeld likes classical music." He replied, "So did Hitler; so did most of the Nazis."
When people have no reason to trust you, or believe anything you say, secrecy is a bad idea.
Rumsfeld rejected the following: "exposure to cold weather or water; use of a wet towel and dripping water to induce the misperception of suffocation; and the use of scenarios designed to convince a detainee that death or severely painful consequences were imminent for him and/or his family." The interrogation techniques he approved don't remotely resemble torture.
I'd assumed the prisoners at Guantánamo were being kept in dark cells too small to stand up in for months at a time. About a week ago I said to my husband, "Rumsfeld likes classical music." He replied, "So did Hitler; so did most of the Nazis."
When people have no reason to trust you, or believe anything you say, secrecy is a bad idea.
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