The New York Daily News reported yesterday that objections to harsh interrogations techniques raised by military attorneys at Guanatamo were brushed aside by Pentagon officials.
Judge advocates--uniformed legal advisers known as JAGs who were assigned to a secret war crimes task force--repeatedly objected to aggressive interrogations by a separate intelligence unit at Camp Delta, where Taliban and Al Qaeda suspects have been jailed since January 2002.
But Pentagon officials "didn't think this was a big deal, so they just ignored the JAGs," a senior military source said.
[Via Balkinization.]