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In the face of growing criticism over the treatment of detainees, Pentagon officials have decided to make public all of the military's interrogation techniques.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said for the first time Wednesday that officials are at odds over whether a new Army manual should endorse different interrogation techniques for enemy insurgents than are allowed for regular prisoners of war.

At the Senate intelligence committee hearing Thursday on Hayden's nomination to head the CIA, Sen Dianne Feinstein asked the nominee a simple question: Is "waterboarding" an acceptable interrogation technique? Gen Hayden: "Let me defer that to closed session, and I would be happy
Interviews with high-ranking military officials shed new light on the role Rumsfeld played in the harsh treatment of a Guantánamo detainee.
A story reported by the Los Angeles Times' Paul Watson on Monday was so mind-boggling that it took a few days for other media outlets and Web sites to react.
Army investigators found "probable cause" that a civilian interrogator abused a detainee at Abu Ghraib. Why has the Department of Justice failed to prosecute him -- or any of the other 18 civilians suspected of criminal acts?
"As the Iraqi insurgency intensified in early 2004, an elite Special Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near Baghdad into a top-secret detention center.
As the Iraqi insurgency intensified in early 2004, an elite Special Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near Baghdad into a top-secret detention center.
"These documents show that the abuse at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib was not caused by rogue elements but rather it was the consequence of policies that were deliberately adopted by senior military and Pentagon officials," said Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU lawyer.
A new expose gives an account of the CIA’s secret efforts to develop new forms of torture spanning fifty years.
We are crossing a very serious boundry here. Although the thought that Abu Ghraib would hopefully never happen again is comforting, how many civil rights abuses could come from this technology?
The British government knew the United States may have used its territory for secret flights carrying prisoners abroad for interrogation and deliberately impeded investigations into the allegations, a leaked memo published Thursday indicates.