June 14, 2006
WASHINGTON -- In the face of growing criticism over the treatment of detainees, Pentagon officials have decided to make public all of the military's interrogation techniques.
The decision, which comes after months of internal debate and pressure from members of Congress, would reveal interrogation tactics in a long-awaited revision of the Army Field Manual, despite arguments that it could allow enemy prisoners to better resist questioning.
Defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not public yet, said Tuesday that the Pentagon had dropped plans to keep some interrogation techniques secret by putting them in a classified section of the military manual.
The two senior officials said there will not be a classified section in the manual. One of the officials said descriptions of interrogation techniques initially planned for the classified section are either being made public or are being eliminated as tactics that can be used against prisoners.
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-detainees-interrogation,0,7177364.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlinesI wonder if this manual will become a best seller? I wonder what the title should be? How to Torture people without calling it Torture? :sarcasm:
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