RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Another Rant

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, F Vernon Green wrote:

> I got to thinking about this last night too. I honestly have no
> problem with them being stripped naked either. That is a common
> thing when someone is arrested, to go through a strip search. (I
> have been arrested but never strip searched myself). The problem
> is that when you are stripped down in that fashion, you cannot go
> around hamming it up for the camera, making the people you are
> searching perform sex acts and things of the sort. Somewhere a
> line must be drawn.

One point that you need to consider here is that there has *already
been* an investigation of this within the army; this (and other
episodes) were found to be so far beyond the beyond as to amaze
those who did the investigation.  What we're not quite sure of yet
are things like: to what extent this pattern of behavior would be
seen at other sites?  How in the heck did we get in a situation
where we subcontracted out interrogation and (essentially) the
direction of prison guards to for-profit companies?  Where was the
official oversight?  Why has this report been buried for over 2
months in the army chain of command?  (The last one I find
incredibly puzzling; the *worst thing* that could happen in a
situation like this is for you to discover the problem, investigate
it, have the report written, and then not fully act on it so you
look like you're clueless and/or playing catch-up when details of
the problem *inevitably* escape.)

jking

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