Dan’s Reviews > Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values > Status Update
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On page 9, Sands is talking about how respected the Army Field Manual was to interrogators before Rumsfeld’s torture memo, how soldiers didn’t view it as quaint or obsolete. I don’t know much about Vietnam, and massacres aside, I’m pretty sure soldiers tortured people for information not infrequently.
— May 24, 2022 10:31AM
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And Sands’s tone is very outraged, rightfully, though not very scholarly—a lot of these books on war on terror torture act as if this was the first time soldiers/CIA engaged in activity like this, and it was all Bush’s fault. Top-down approach to abuses. I think it would be more honest and powerful if these books mentioned that this stuff was commonplace, but Bush was the first one to properly sanction it.
— May 24, 2022 10:34AM
