Send Them To The Hague
Apr 21st, 2008 at 7:55 pm by Susie
In a forthcoming book, British international law professor Phillippe Sands further documents how the most extreme interrogation techniques — including stress, hooding, noise, nudity, and “dogs” — came directly from the White House and Pentagon.
Sands reveals that Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s lawyer Jim Haynes traveled to Guantanamo in 2002, witnessed an interrogation, and sent approval back to Washington. The “driving individual was Mr. Addington, who was obviously the man in control,” Sands said:
There was an extraordinary meeting held in September 2002, just before the techniques were to go up the chain of command, so to speak. descended on Guantanamo, met with the combatant commander there Mike Dunlavey, watched some interrogations, and as I was told by Dunlavey and by his lawyer Diane Beaver, basically sent out the signal ‘do whatever needs to be done.’
I have an even better idea - drop them unarmed and unguarded into the middle of Baghdad for the Iraqis to deal with. I bet they’d get a whole new perspective on “aggressive interrogation techniques.”
Let the Hauge try them first, so the criminal extent of their actions can be documented, and THEN send them to serve 60-to-life in Abu Graib. Or perhaps the ‘aggressive interrogation techniques’ will be required to help them confess to their crimes. It’s been said that an Apache could keep a person alive and screaming for several days before there heart or lungs gave out completely. It’s worth a try.