Retired generals criticize White House

But who cares?

After all, the Chickenhawks who did everything they could to avoid service in a war, know best.

United Press International - Security & Terrorism - Retired generals criticize White House:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Twenty-seven retired U.S. military leaders are pressing the Senate to reject the White House's attempt to relax interrogation standards for the CIA.

The same group was instrumental in helping to convince Congress last year to pass Sen. John McCain's Detainee Treatment Act, which prohibited torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment for all U.S. detainees.

The Supreme Court earlier this year affirmed that even al-Qaida terrorist prisoners are covered by the most basic Geneva Convention protections outlined in what is known as 'Common Article 3.'

That treaty prohibits violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; taking of hostages; outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment; and the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court.

It also requires prisoners to have all judicial guarantees universally recognized as indispensable.