Tuesday, November 08, 2005

New Rules on Detainees

As the liberal offensive against questioning terrorists continue, the Pentagon has issued new rules for their treatment in prison:

The directive, provided by the Defense Department, pulls together for the first time all of its existing policies and memos covering the interrogation of detainees taken in the war against terrorism. It comes as Congress is considering a ban on the inhumane treatment of U.S. prisoners and Democrats have launched a long-shot effort to create a commission to investigate abuse...The only specific prohibition in the directive says that dogs used by any government agency "shall not be used as part of an interrogations approach or to harass, intimidate threaten or coerce a detainee for interrogations purposes."

Will it satisfy the pundits? Of course not! So why try?