Obama team discusses interrogation policy changes
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:26 amObama team discusses interrogation policy changes
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Obama team discusses interrogation policy changes
Posted: 05:05 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric Holder, met Wednesday with 12 retired generals and admirals to discuss changing the U.S. government’s current interrogation and detention policies.
All 12 retirees have been critical of the Bush administration’s endorsement of enhanced interrogation techniques, including highly controversial practices such as waterboarding. They have instead urged the adoption of a single — and less controversial — standard of interrogation and detainment across all intelligence and other agencies.
The meeting was requested by the New York-based group Human Rights First.
“It is (important that) the new president say up front that the United States is not going to engage in torture or enhanced interrogations,” retired Rear Adm. John Hutson, one of the participants in the meeting, said during an appearance on “CNN Newsroom.” Not only are such techniques generally ineffective, Hutson said, but they also “smear the good name of the United States, domestically and internationally.”
« Thread Started on Dec 3, 2008, 8:32pm »
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Obama team discusses interrogation policy changes
Posted: 05:05 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric Holder, met Wednesday with 12 retired generals and admirals to discuss changing the U.S. government’s current interrogation and detention policies.
All 12 retirees have been critical of the Bush administration’s endorsement of enhanced interrogation techniques, including highly controversial practices such as waterboarding. They have instead urged the adoption of a single — and less controversial — standard of interrogation and detainment across all intelligence and other agencies.
The meeting was requested by the New York-based group Human Rights First.
“It is (important that) the new president say up front that the United States is not going to engage in torture or enhanced interrogations,” retired Rear Adm. John Hutson, one of the participants in the meeting, said during an appearance on “CNN Newsroom.” Not only are such techniques generally ineffective, Hutson said, but they also “smear the good name of the United States, domestically and internationally.”