Digging a Bit Deeper
January 23rd, 2009
Obama’s executive order titled “Ensuring Lawful Interrogations” can be found here.
It basically guts our interrogators ability to acquire information, even though one of its stated purposes is “to improve the effectiveness of human intelligence gathering”. What a joke. This of course is derived from the often repeated premises that, “torture doesn’t work”, and “waterboarding is torture.”
First of all, waterboarding does work. It is very effective, and has only been used a handful of times since 9/11. It also is not torture. It simulates drowning, while not causing a single bit of lasting physical harm.
The scope of the order is breathtaking really.
Effective immediately, an individual in the custody or under the effective control of an officer, employee, or other agent of the United States Government, or detained within a facility owned, operated, or controlled by a department or agency of the United States, in any armed conflict, shall not be subjected to any interrogation technique or approach, or any treatment related to interrogation, that is not authorized by and listed in Army Field Manual 2 22.3 (Manual). Interrogation techniques, approaches, and treatments described in the Manual shall be implemented strictly in accord with the principles, processes, conditions, and limitations the Manual prescribes. Where processes required by the Manual, such as a requirement of approval by specified Department of Defense officials, are inapposite to a department or an agency other than the Department of Defense, such a department or agency shall use processes that are substantially equivalent to the processes the Manual prescribes for the Department of Defense. Nothing in this section shall preclude the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or other Federal law enforcement agencies, from continuing to use authorized, non-coercive techniques of interrogation that are designed to elicit voluntary statements and do not involve the use of force, threats, or promises.
This means that all a detainee has to do is read the army field manual, and he knows he will be fine. The psychological advantage that the interrogator has, is now gone. They will know what we will do to them if they do not cooperate. This is a huge disadvantage for our interrogators. The prisoner has nothing to fear, and especially does not have to fear the unknown. They will know for sure that they will not be harmed for not cooperating.
The order also sets up a panel of dinks to decide what techniques can be used, and is led by the Attorney General. So a leftist lawyer, that doesn’t like American too much anyway, will know decide how our military and the rest of the intelligence community gather intelligence.
Barack Obama has just officially bestowed prisoner of war status on every terrorist detainee we have around the world. They now will enjoy all the rights that the Geneva conventions bestow upon uniformed P.O.W.s. Again, this will get Americans killed.
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