[Peace-discuss] Obama hasn't stopped torture (& Romney won't)

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://t.co/lutGCvS1

"...both candidates would permit a level of torture.

"Obama has stopped agents and military officers from engaging in some forms of torture and outsourced the torture to allies in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. That does not mean agents and military officers are not engaged in torture themselves. Guantanamo Bay prison is still open.

"It is believed with the Army Field Manual in force torture has stopped. Jeff Kaye of Truthout has found, through his research and work, the Army Field Manual—particularly Appendix M—permits sleep deprivation, twenty hour interrogations and environmental and dietary manipulations, as long as they are not “extreme.” Kaye has detailed how the Army Field Manual makes it justifiable for prisoners to be limited to “four hours of sleep per day for up to thirty days straight and longer than that with approval.” The four hours of sleep, he has noted, could occur at any time of the twenty-four hour day, “a form of manipulation of circadian rhythms that also amounts to torture, not to mention allowing mammoth interrogation sessions to exhaust the prisoner”..."
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