Charlie Savage notes:
The administration is separately crafting a list of permitted and forbidden tactics that it said will comply with Bush's executive order, but the list is classified.[...]
The order also said the CIA director must personally approve the use of extraordinary interrogation practices against any specific detainee.
And emptywheel adds:
[S]ome of the most obvious abuses--using sex and religion--are now forbidden. But the key information, what remains permitted, is in a separate, classified list that we don't get to see. And three other key details: the Executive Order explicitly denies any legal responsibilities associated with the EO, so even if some overzealous torturer ignores it, he's not going to jail. The Red Cross remains unable to monitor prisoners in this newfangled "enhanced interrogation" program.
So, really, I don't see that torture has been banned with this latest meaningless paper. I think George just likes to hand out pens.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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