From: Adam Flinton 

I didn't but I was waiting to see if that would come out & how they'd
try & finesse it (e.g. it wasn't actually Mr Bush, but Mr Rumsfeld
& hey look he's climbing the steps of the scaffold anyway....)





Adam

Steve Ewing wrote:
> 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...
> =====
>

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