From The Washington Post:The Obama administration has objected to a provision in the 2010 defense funding bill currently before the Senate that would bar the military's use of contractors to interrogate detainees.
The provision, strongly backed by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), describes interrogations as an "inherently governmental function" that "cannot be transferred to contractor personnel." It would give the Defense Department one year from the bill's enactment to ensure that the military had the resources to comply with it.
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My Comment: This is President Obama's administrations way of saying that they are against torture if it is our guys who are doing it .... but it is OK if outsiders do it for us.
At the same time that this is happening, U.S. Attorney General Holder wants to investigate torture practices from the previous administration.
The hypocrisy from this government no longer surprises me.
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