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Many legislators, joined by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which monitors the Geneva Conventions, say these new rules violated the treaty and sowed the seeds for abuse. The Senate Armed Services Committee released a one-page document, "Interrogation Rules of Engagement," which the Pentagon claimed was produced by minor officers in the prison's military-intelligence brigade, that went into effect right after Miller's visit. The right column of the page outlined rough practices that could be used if Sanchez personally approved them. The list included sleep deprivation, stress positions, lengthy isolation, dietary manipulation and the presence...
...telling the truth? The differing accounts of Sivits and Graner go to the heart of the scandal: How high up does responsibility go? Everyone agrees that the despicable treatment the 372nd inflicted at Abu Ghraib violated the Geneva Conventions, U.S. rules on interrogation and common decency. And no matter what superiors order, soldiers are ultimately culpable for their own actions. But across Capitol Hill, many also fault senior Pentagon civilians and brass for loosening the rules of interrogation in Iraq and the top guns of the Bush Administration for setting a tone of tolerance as far back as Sept...
...procedures, since Miller reported directly to the Pentagon. Other Pentagon officials said Sanchez, at any rate, had never given anyone explicit permission to use such methods. And Rumsfeld told Senators that Pentagon lawyers had checked the rules thoroughly before judging Sanchez's list to be "consistent" with the Geneva Conventions. But according to Scott Horton of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, several senior military lawyers went to him last May and October with concerns that Pentagon civilian attorneys were easing the rules of interrogation to endanger prisoner rights. Finally, an exasperated Senator asked Wolfowitz...
...exactly those kinds of improper or illegal techniques, say the Red Cross and other human rights experts, that the Bush Administration has systematically applied at U.S. detention centers around the world. When the President declared his no-holds-barred war on terrorism, top officials announced that the Geneva Conventions wouldn't cover prisoners held at Guantanamo. A soldier involved with intelligence at the base told TIME that interrogators there had been formally briefed on how the treaty didn't apply to their captives. "There were no bright lines on what you could and couldn't do," he says...
While Pentagon officials insisted the abuses at Abu Ghraib were the work of seven individuals acting on their own, the rest of Washington looked for possible culprits further up the chain of command. Did key leaders unwittingly encourage--or deliberately order--the reservists to violate the Geneva Conventions in order to soften up detainees for interrogation...