http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=ne ... &id=321015WASHINGTON — Evidence gained by torture can be used by the U.S. military in deciding whether to imprison a foreigner indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an enemy combatant, the government concedes.
Statements produced under torture have been inadmissible in U.S. courts for about 70 years. But the U.S. military panels reviewing the detention of 550 foreigners as enemy combatants at the U.S. naval base in Cuba are allowed to use such evidence, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Brian Boyle acknowledged at a U.S. District Court hearing Thursday.
These people arent classed as fighting for a country, therefore, they do not get protection from the Geneva Convention. In 2002, the White House counsel, in a memo to Bush, said that the Justice Department's advice was sound and that Bush should declare the Taliban and Al Qaeda outside the coverage of the Geneva conventions. That would keep United States officials from being exposed to the federal War Crimes Act, a 1996 law, which, I believe, carries the death penalty!
Is this right or wrong?
On the other hand, there are countless violations by Iraq and its 'freedom fighters', 'insurgents', 'mercenaries', ''terrorists' or 'monsters' of the convention.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/wm260.cfm
Two wrongs make a right?
