http://www.antemedius.com/category/tags/joint-chiefs-staff The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.antemedius.com/content/john-yoo-donald-rumsfeld-and-systematic-torture-prisoners <p><img class="img-left" src="http://www.antemedius.com/files/images/rumsfeld.jpg" /> On January 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon's top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.</p> <p> "Establish a working group within the Department of Defense to assess the legal, policy and operational issues relating to the interrogations of detainees held by the US Armed Forces in the war on terrorism," the directives said.</p> <p> Among the issues to be addressed were "policy considerations with respect to the choice of interrogation techniques, including contribution to intelligence collection, effect on treatment of captured US military personnel, effect on detainee prosecutions, historical role of US armed forces in conducting interrogations, recommendations for employment of particular interrogation techniques by [Defense Department] interrogators."</p><p><a href="http://www.antemedius.com/content/john-yoo-donald-rumsfeld-and-systematic-torture-prisoners">read more</a></p> http://www.antemedius.com/content/john-yoo-donald-rumsfeld-and-systematic-torture-prisoners#comments International Relations+War Law Politics+Current Affairs CIA Interrogators Convention Against Torture Defense Intelligence Agency Department of Defense DOJ Donald Rumsfeld Guantanamo Bay Jason Leopold John Yoo Joint Chiefs of Staff Mary Walker Office of Legal Counsel Pentagon Torture Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:44:34 -0700 Jason Leopold 325 at http://www.antemedius.com