The latest disclosures from battered-but-unbowed WikiLeaks, the website whose stock in trade has been publishing classified documents, including videos, throw little new light on a secret U.S. war against global terrorism that has lost the power to shock. Laid bare to the public eye are a series of documents acquired by a teenager hacker, who gained access to an e-mail account belonging to CIA director John Brennan.
Perhaps the most interesting revelation concerns not Brennan himself but former Missouri senator Chris “Kit” Bond. Bond, the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Brennan and others outlining ways that lawmakers could help U.S. intelligence services skirt laws, especially Geneva Convention restrictions, on the harsh treatment of prisoners. “Rather than authorize intelligence agencies to use only those techniques that are allowed under the AFM [Army Field Manual],” writes Bond, “I believe the more prudent approach is to preclude the use of specific techniques that are prohibited under the AFM. In this way, the Congress can state clearly that certain harsh interrogation techniques (read: torture) will not be permissible. At the same time, this approach allows for the possibility that new techniques that are not explicitly authorized in the AFM, but nevertheless comply with the law, may be developed in the future.” This approach, besides giving Congress plausible deniability, would free American interrogators from having to “rely on and interpret and Manual that was written solely for military intelligence operations.” For the full article click here
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