re: #681 LudwigVanQuixote

Nonsense.

Waterboarding was one of the charges brought as an example of Japanese cruelty to our POWs look at article 54 and the testimony given. People can have more than one charge brought against them at a trial. It was certainly one of the charges.

Further, what about the courts martials in the Phillipines… Those certainly were specifically about it. We convicted our own men for doing it - in time of war, against irregular troops, who were captured on the battlefield . In otherwords, as far as UCMJ is concerned, we have already convicted our own people for doing these things to others who fit the same bill as these men.

Just nonesense.

The UCMJ covers military personnel and only military personnel. Do I need to explain why that’s different than saying water boarding is illegal? The CIA is not bound by the army field manual or the UCMJ and they are entitled to do whatever the president and congress believes is within the legal boundries of whatever treaties we may have signed.

Secondly, if the japanese had just done the american version of water boarding, without all that messy drowning and tens of thousands of deaths, do you think there would have been any trials?