US confession over Guantanamo

US officials admitted last night that interrogation techniques on some suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay went beyond accepted military practice.
In 2002, interrogators sought approval to use harsher methods than allowed in standard military doctrine, and some of those techniques were used until military lawyers objected, the officials said.
Larry Di Rita, spokesman for Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, refused to identify the techniques, which he described as "non-doctrinal". This means they were not in accordance with military
doctrine, which applies to interrogations of prisoners of war, not terrorists.
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The interrogators wanted to use harsher methods against a prisoner believed to have information about a planned attack on the US. Military lawyers objected to at least some of those proposed methods, and Mr Rumsfeld ordered the Pentagon's top lawyers to create a working group to examine the issues.
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