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Originally posted by seretogis
Maybe you should make the effort to learn how they are different instead of just assuming that it's something sneaky that Bush did to get away with touching the genitals of prisoners? 
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From an article in October 2003
We have three official classifications:
'security detainee' is any individual who has committed a crime against US-led coalition forces
-US Brig-Gen Janis Karpinsky (in charge of all detainees in Iraq)
"high-interest detainees" Same thing as security detainee.
enemy prisoners of war (POWs) is a soldier who is imprisoned by an enemy power during and immediately after an armed conflict.
Link to the rest of the def
No matter what their crime, the prisoner-of-war system was created to set a clear set of standards governing the treatment of all detainees in wartime. The new categories created by the US did not have a legal basis within the Geneva Convention and could be used to classify any combatant as a criminal.
This is the most interesting sentence.
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"I can tell you there’s sometimes a light on all the time, but there is no torture, there is no abuse, there is no violent extraction of information in any of our facilities," she stated.
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Remember, that was said in October 2003. It was said to assuage fears that these new classifications would be used to get around Geneva Convention guidelines so we could abuse the "detainees"
"Security Detainee"
