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hoho, now you stepped in a stinky pile of gross misrepresentation. Military use of "torture" is under written consent (inclusive of JAG supervised psychiatric eval) and for the express purpose of training soldiers/operatives to be aware of, and gain experience in, the potential treatment one might be subjected to as a POW. It is "not" for the purposes of applying said techniques on POWs - military, civilian or otherwise.
The U.S. Army Field Manual on Interrogation (FM 34-52, published in 1992) was quite clear (enacted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and was reciprocatively based on WW2's General Order - the Code of U.S. Fighting Forces). The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 reaffirmed FM 34-52 and required all personnel to abide by it. Unfortunately Rumsfeld modified the manual shortly thereafter and added an unpublished section including "enhanced interrogation techniques." Nine months later the U.S. Army replaced the "tampered" version of FM 34-52 with FM 2-22.3, which firmly restricted (disallowed) the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and tortures, including waterboarding.
As to the laws, just a few are:
Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions (1949)
Article 16 of the U.N. Convention Against Torture (1987)
Article 93 of the UCMJ (Cruelty & Maltreatment - 1950)
Article 128 of the UCMJ (Assault - 1950)
Article 134 of the UCMJ (Communicating a Threat- 1950)
Assault/Battery (every U.S. State and Protectorate)
There is also ample evidence to tack on Articles 78, 80, 81 & 82 of the UCMJ
And then there's the civil penalties authorized by the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, which does a pretty good job of indicating torture (inclusive of waterboarding, as presented in case studies) as a crime.
As to your meaningless rambles about the 1960's, the crimes in question occurred between 2003 and 2008. Therefore it doesn't mean jack squat what "may" have been allowed in the 1960's (although i'm sure you would be hard pressed to find any support for your contentions, particularly considering the precedence of convictions after WW2 and during the Vietnam War, as I previously posted in this thread and which stand as clear contradiction to your erroneous assertions).
Finally, as this is about Bush Jr., even after all the additional stipulations were imposed, between 2007-2008, Bush authorized the continued use of waterboarding to detainees.
((apologies for not being more throrough, as there is quite a bit of additional pertinent info, but i'm limited to memory, an iPhone and the limits of two-thumb typing))
The U.S. Army Field Manual on Interrogation (FM 34-52, published in 1992) was quite clear (enacted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and was reciprocatively based on WW2's General Order - the Code of U.S. Fighting Forces). The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 reaffirmed FM 34-52 and required all personnel to abide by it. Unfortunately Rumsfeld modified the manual shortly thereafter and added an unpublished section including "enhanced interrogation techniques." Nine months later the U.S. Army replaced the "tampered" version of FM 34-52 with FM 2-22.3, which firmly restricted (disallowed) the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and tortures, including waterboarding.
As to the laws, just a few are:
Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions (1949)
Article 16 of the U.N. Convention Against Torture (1987)
Article 93 of the UCMJ (Cruelty & Maltreatment - 1950)
Article 128 of the UCMJ (Assault - 1950)
Article 134 of the UCMJ (Communicating a Threat- 1950)
Assault/Battery (every U.S. State and Protectorate)
There is also ample evidence to tack on Articles 78, 80, 81 & 82 of the UCMJ
And then there's the civil penalties authorized by the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, which does a pretty good job of indicating torture (inclusive of waterboarding, as presented in case studies) as a crime.
As to your meaningless rambles about the 1960's, the crimes in question occurred between 2003 and 2008. Therefore it doesn't mean jack squat what "may" have been allowed in the 1960's (although i'm sure you would be hard pressed to find any support for your contentions, particularly considering the precedence of convictions after WW2 and during the Vietnam War, as I previously posted in this thread and which stand as clear contradiction to your erroneous assertions).
Finally, as this is about Bush Jr., even after all the additional stipulations were imposed, between 2007-2008, Bush authorized the continued use of waterboarding to detainees.
((apologies for not being more throrough, as there is quite a bit of additional pertinent info, but i'm limited to memory, an iPhone and the limits of two-thumb typing))
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