“SECURITY”

One of Bush Co’s rationalizations for torture is that certain detainees don’t have the protections of the Geneva Conventions – because they aren’t “prisoners of war.” Well, surprise surprise: now they say that many prisoners of war don’t have those protections either

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/international/middleeast/08detain.html?ex=1262926800&en=7b6bc58bc386a6e5&ei=5090