http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/21/rumsfeld.interrogation.memos/index.html
The senior defense official who provided the original information to CNN now says Rumsfeld only approved “mild, noninjurious physical contact” with a high-level al Qaeda detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and specifically did not approve a request to use water boarding.
The tactic involves strapping a prisoner down and immersing him in water and making the subject feel as though he is drowning.
The list of aggressive tactics included the following:
Only tactic number four, mild noninjurious physical contact, was approved.
Grabbing someone’s arm? Light shoving? Riiiiiiiigggggggggght :rolleyes:
More semantic nitpicking ensues…
Last week, Rumsfeld complained that people were defining torture in a way that, in his words, “doesn’t fit a dictionary definition of the word that one would normally accept.”
Now before you ask me why am I getting steamed, because according to the article, Rummy rejected these requests, let me just say I’m calling some serious bullshit. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were employing all of the methods above.
Putting some sterile veneer on something isn’t going to fool us, we know full well what that “stress position” bullshit is.