I can see it now: “But sir! Nobody told us we couldn’t torture & humiliate suspected enemy combatants!”
Pentagon to omit Geneva ban from new army manual: report – Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – New policies on prisoners being drawn up by the Pentagon will reportedly omit a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment.”Citing unidentified but knowledgeable military officials, the Los Angeles Times said the step would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift by the US government away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.
