We don’t want to surprise the terrorists with any of our interrogation techniques.
Pentagon won’t hide interrogation tactics : “Under pressure from Congress, the
Pentagon has dropped plans to keep some interrogation techniques secret by putting them in a classified section of a military manual, defense officials said Tuesday.…descriptions of interrogation techniques initially planned for the classified section are either being made public or are being eliminated as tactics that can be used against prisoners.
…Military leaders have argued that disclosing all the interrogation techniques public would make it easier for enemy prisoners to resist questioning.
…any interrogation technique not included in the manual would be considered illegal.”
This is, of course, in response to the law passed last year, championed by McCain and others, to criminalize “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners by U.S. troops.”
Let’s hear it for giving terrorists a chance to practice their resistance techniques. We wouldn’t want USA interrogators to have unfair advantage or anything.
