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| Ex-Pentagon lawyers challenged |
| By The Wall Street Journal |
| Published: 06/18/2008 |
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WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department's top lawyers began looking to harsh interrogation techniques within months of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison in 2002, according to memorandums and emails disclosed Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. The document release began a daylong hearing into the origins of interrogation policies after 9/11, which were developed for Guantanamo but soon migrated to military units in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although many of the extreme methods have been disclosed, along with legal theories that could justify them, the precise role played by senior officials in developing the policies has remained cloudy. At Tuesday's hearing, which followed a two-year investigation by Senate staff, committee Chairman Carl Levin (D., Mich.) and the ranking Republican present, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina suggested the Pentagon's former general counsel had approved cruel interrogation methods of questionable effectiveness while turning a blind eye to urgent warnings from the military services that the proposed techniques could qualify as assault or torture under federal law. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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