A day or two ago the head of the Iranian judiciary issued an order banning the use of torture and other abuses
"Any torture to extract a confession is banned and the confessions extracted through torture are not legitimate and legal," Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi's order to the police, judges and intelligence officials says. The 15-point directive says the "blindfolding, restraining, pestering and insulting of detainees must be avoided during arrest, interrogation and investigation".
Around the same time, President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq. The Executive Order states that the President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc.
Aren't we supposed to be the good guys?
The California Curmudgeon.
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