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February 24, 2009

White House-Backed Inquiry: Gitmo Conforms with Geneva Conventions
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The torture allegations came as a White House-backed Pentagon
investigation said conditions at Guantanamo have met the standards of
the Geneva Conventions. Lead investigator Admiral Patrick Walsh.

Adm. Patrick Walsh: “Common Article 3 of the Geneva convention prohibits
the following acts: violence to life and person; taking of hostages;
outrages of personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading
treatment; passing of sentences without judgment pronounced by a
regularly constituted court. Any substantiated evidence of prohibited
acts discovered in the course of the review would have warranted a
finding of noncompliance with Common Article 3. We found no such
evidence.”

Walsh touted himself as an impartial investigator even though he’s a
high-ranking Navy official. Human rights groups and attorneys for the
prisoners immediately dismissed the report as a sham.



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