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June 08, 2004

It's still all disease

Newsweek:

A memo classified by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2003 explores ways of conducting interrogations in the war on terror that would allow guards to evade future prosecutions for torture. In a series of minutely argued points that appear designed to evade restrictions on abusive interrogation techniques, the memo concludes that “excessive force” is illegal only when it is “malicious and sadistic.” It also argues that treatment of prisoners should be defined as torture only when "the infliction of pain" is an interrogator's "precise objective."

Fugazi:

I'm sure you have reasons / a rational defense
Weapons and motives / bloody fingerprints
But i can't help thinking it's still all disease
Here comes the argument