By Arthur Bright, Christian Science Monitor
Critics say administration’s endorsement of ‘enhanced interrogation’ is ‘immoral,’ draw comparisons to Nazi war crimes.
The White House is close to completing a new set of guidelines on the use of “enhanced interrogative techniques” by US agents, even as critics say such techniques are “immoral,” “amateurish,” and “indistinguishable” from Nazi war crimes.
The New York Times reports that the administration is preparing “secret new rules governing interrogations.”
The Bush administration is nearing completion of a long-delayed executive order that will set new rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency. The order is expected to ban the harshest techniques used in the past, including the simulated drowning tactic known as waterboarding, but to authorize some methods that go beyond those allowed in the military by the Army Field Manual.