A classified memorandum issued by General Sanchez on Oct. 12, outlining a new "interrogation and counter-resistance policy," directs that "the interrogator should appear to be the one who controls all aspects of the interrogation... as well as food, clothing, and shelter given to the security internee," according to a briefing provided to Senate staff members last week by two senior Army officers.
On August 24th the White House announced that it would create a new interrogation team housed with the FBI, not the CIA.
The C.I.A. would take the lead, developing aggressive new interrogation methods that would be described as "enhanced," "robust," "special".
Then, after a break long enough to claim that a new interrogation had begun, they gave her a Miranda warning and resumed questioning.
Also yesterday, the Pentagon released the army's new interrogation field manual barring such methods as mock executions, sexual humiliation, hooding prisoners and "waterboarding".
He proposed establishing a new interrogation and debriefing center and ensuring that military police officers were assigned to help set the conditions for questioning.
The Defense Secretary also was authorizing a special "working group" of a few dozen lawyers, from all branches of the armed services, including Mora, to develop new interrogation guidelines.
In an article on Slate.com, Sands claimed that Diane Beaver, the staff judge advocate general who approved 18 controversial new interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, told him Bauer "gave people lots of ideas".
There was also concern that the government's new interrogation guidelines for British intelligence officers – published after being recently rewritten – contained a number of loopholes that could still lead to it being used to facilitate torture.
Still, the missed deadlines seemed to underscore the gravity and complexity of the legal, political and policy problems confronting the administration as it tries to put into place new interrogation rules and figure out what to do with the detainees.
