From: "Mark" 

Forgive me if I find anything the ACLU forwards as suspect, at the very, VERY, least.

"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
news:opsjd2dscgsagvys{at}news.barkto.com...
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:30:15 +0000, Adam Flinton
>  wrote:
>
>> "One of the memorandums released on Monday provided the account of an
>> FBI agent who observed "serious physical abuses" in Iraq.
>
> You're missing the important part:
>
> "FBI E-Mail Refers to   ***Presidential Order***
> Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques"
> [my emphasis]
>
> http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206
>
> ======
> NEW YORK -- A document released for the first time today by the American
> Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive
> Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against
> detainees in Iraq.
> [...]
> The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the
> President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep
> deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory
> deprivation through the use of hoods, etc." The ACLU is urging the White
> House to confirm or deny the existence of such an order and immediately to
> release the order if it exists. The FBI e-mail, which was sent in May 2004
> from "On Scene Commander--Baghdad" to a handful of senior
FBI officials,
> notes that the FBI has prohibited its agents from employing the techniques
> that the President is said to have authorized...
> =====
>
> --
> Steve 
> http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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