The Devil may still be in the details of the newly revised Army Field Manual, but he is also in George Bush's heavy handed insistence, today, that the US maintain "a separate program operated by the Central Intelligence Agency," not governed by the new Army requirements for detentions and interrogations.
"On the same day that the Department of Defense took a stand against the torture and abuse of detainees, the President undercut the uniformed military by defending the CIA's use of extraordinary rendition and interrogation techniques that amount to torture," stated Leonard Rubenstein, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights. "When the President had the opportunity to make the high standards of the new Army Field Manual the baseline for all national security interrogations, he instead defended the continued use of harsh tactics that violate the very guidelines the Pentagon released today."
(More reaction quotes from PHR.)
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