You know, that conflicts with my "cutoms". Yours?In a Jan. 12 memo to U.S. military commanders worldwide, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz wrote that the military should not perform "routine detainee body cavity exams or searches" because this invasive procedure "may conflict with the customs of some detainees."
Reuters article
From now on they will respectfully poke in your ass."Body cavity searches are to be conducted only when there is a reasonable belief that the detainee is concealing an item that presents a security risk," Wolfowitz wrote. The searches "will be conducted in a manner that respects the person" and should be conducted by someone of the same sex, he said.
Seeing as how we signed on to the Geneva Conventions some decades ago, it would be only fair that we should adhere to them at this point, eh?In an interrogation manual nearing completion, Gandy said, requirements of the Geneva Conventions regarding the treatment of prisoners "are well integrated into the techniques" permitted to be used by the U.S. military in interrogations.
"So you'll see a much closer binding of the Geneva Convention laws of war, those kinds of things, with the techniques of interrogations. That would be one of the major changes," Gandy said.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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