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Powell on the Application of Geneva Convention in Afghanistan
Jan. 26, 2002 Colin Powell, in a Memo to Alberto Gonzales, Counsel to the President
If the "Geneva Convention does not apply to the conflict" the decision "will reverse over a century of U.S. policy and practice in supporting the Geneva conventions and undermine the protections of the law of war for our troops, both in this specific conflict and in general."
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Government authorized torture? Not true.
Jun. 07, 2004 Donald Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, speaking at a Pentagon briefing, said he feared that extensive and distorted news coverage of instances of abuse had done harm. "I've been kind of following the headlines and the bullets in the television —the big, powerful hits on torture and this type of thing that we've seen," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
"And the implication is that the United States government has, in one way or another, ordered, authorized, permitted, tolerated torture," Mr. Rumsfeld said. "Not true."
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