whew!

i'm not used to this. morality that is. someone who seems to have a soul that is. someone who follows the law that is. whew is right

Intelligence Pick Calls Torture Immoral, Ineffective

By Walter Pincus

Washington Post Staff Writer
Retired Adm. Dennis C. Blair, President Obama's nominee to lead the U.S. intelligence community, told Congress yesterday that torture "is not moral, legal or effective" and that "there will not be any waterboarding on my watch."

Blair, nominated to be director of national intelligence, used his confirmation hearing to outline a new approach to counterterrorism and told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that he would not support "any surveillance activities that circumvent" the law.

"I believe we are in a new era in the relationship between the two branches of government," Blair told committee members, who over the past eight years were frequently denied information by the White House. Blair, the former head of U.S. Pacific Command who spent two years in the 1990s as an associate CIA director for military support, appeared headed for unanimous approval...........

and then we also have this! we MUST follow international humane laws. we are human beings NOT soul-less heartless evil-doers. we don't want OUR people to be tortured. we call those that do such things savages. we became those savages for eight years. we will now start to become human beings once again and i for one am comfortable with that

Army manual that bars 'waterboarding' now single standard
A US Army field manual that bars the use of "waterboarding" and other harsh interrogation techniques was set forth Thursday as the single standard for interrogations of prisoners.

President Barack Obama ordered the change, which brings to a close the CIA's secret prisons and special interrogration authorities for "war on terror" detainees.

The manual, known as FM 2-22.3, was revised and reissued by the army in September 2006 amid a storm of controversy over abuses of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and other detention centers.

It cites the Geneva Convention's prohibition of "cruel, inhman and degrading treatment" of prisoners...........