I know that many of you share my pain with living in an America that tortures.
Today, Obama took a serious, long-term substantive step to ending torture in the US. TO quote from CQ Politics
The administration has also decided that all U.S. interrogators will follow the rules for detainees laid out by the Army Field Manual, according to senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the decision. That decision aims to end years of fierce debate over how rough U.S. personnel can get with terror suspects in custody.
Step by step we are coming home to America.
One of the things this does is puts the FBI in the lead of the interrogation of subjects.
Chico Trib
As we all probably recall, the FBI was able to get information from subjects because they did NOT torture. Torture was used to substantiate the lies to support the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Torture is bery effective at obtaining false confessions.
The API went with anonymous official where Chicago goes with this:
The task force concluded that the Army Field Manual provides appropriate guidance on interrogation for military interrogators and that no additional or different guidance was necessary for other agencies, Holder said.
But there is the additional quote about Holder in the AP:
Holder reportedly reacted with disgust when he first read accounts of prisoner abuse earlier this year in a classified version of the IG report.
So perhaps the leaker wanted to note that Holder is supporting the fundamentals of human rights and decency.
Also in today's torture news, forward motion of a special prosecutor!
WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's ethics watchdog has recommended that President Barack Obama consider prosecuting CIA interrogators for harsh methods used in Iraq and Afghanistan that went beyond approved limits.
If Attorney General Eric Holder appoints a special prosecutor, which experts say is likely, this is how it could play out:
See more here: http://www.reuters.com/...
UPDATE: Actual Special Prosecutor!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Rule of law, well, rules.