Allegations That Pentagon TWISTED ARMS To Support Torture Legislation

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Did Pentagon Counsel Twist Arms to Aid White House Torture Bill?
By Justin Rood - September 14, 2006

More details emerge about the allegations that the White House pressured top military lawyers to drop their opposition to its favored torture legislation.

It's believed that William J. Haynes II, the Pentagon counsel who wrote the department's infamous 2002 policies endorsing physical and mental duress during interrogation of terror detainees, was the man who applied pressure to top JAGs of the four branches to sign away their disagreements in letters to key senators.

"Jim Haynes, who's the counsel at the Pentagon, convened this meeting and got these guys to write this letter and something they told people they didn't agree with," an unidentified reporter told White House spokesman Tony Snow in this afternoon's briefing.

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According to one Hill source, the allegation that Haynes pressured the JAGs came up in the Senate Armed Services Committee meeting today, with at least one senator suggesting a hearing devoted to the incident.

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[Tom Joad]

1. I hear a few senators are being waterboarded today.

[jrw14125]

2. ah, the irony....

[bobbieinok]

3. CNN actually said some people had told them this privately-- they also

read the letter the JAG officers sent; they pointed out that W said JAG officers supported him when in fact the letter was very short and only said the JAG officers 'did not object.'

[Cleita]

4. This White House is getting more and more Nazi every day.

That disgusting interview between Lauer and Bush showed Bush as he really is a bullying retard. There are a lot of reasons not to torture from the practical to the moral, but one reason no one is bringing up is that we are supposed to be a civilized nation. We are not barbarians. For Chrissakes we are so technologically advanced we have done what no one in history had done before us. We went to the Moon! We are not barbarians and the mention of torture should send up the loudest of protests against it.

What's wrong with these idiots???