By Jeffrey Kaye
The United States Army Field Manual (AFM) on interrogation (prdf) has been sold to the American public and the world as a replacement for the brutal torture tactics used by the CIA and the Department of Defense during the Bush/Cheney administration.
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On 22 January 2009, President Obama released an executive order
stating that any individual held by any US government agency "shall not
be subjected to any interrogation technique or approach, or any
treatment related to interrogation, that is not authorized by and listed
in Army Field Manual 2 22.3."This Video Proves It Simply Outsourced It
But a close reading of Department of Defense documents and investigations by numerous human rights agencies have shown that the current Army Field Manual itself uses techniques that are abusive and can even amount to torture.
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