A last footnote for now on Rumsfeld’s Paris trip (see here, here, here, and here).
Even where nations agree with the President’s status determination, many would view the more extreme interrogation techniques as violative of other international law (either treaties or customary international law) and perhaps violations of their own domestic law. This puts the interrogators and the chain of command at risk of criminal accusations abroad, either in foreign domestic courts or international fora, to include the ICC.
(My italics). From a memo to the Secretary of the Air Force signed by Major-General Jack Rives, Deputy Judge-Advocate-General of the USAF, 5 February 2003. Facsimile here, courtesy of Jack Balkin.
Next post on neolithic ham, I trust.
