{"id":568601,"date":"2010-05-18T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85057"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:12:16","slug":"rush-holt-finally-wins-on-videotaping-military-interrogations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568601","title":{"rendered":"Rush Holt Finally Wins on Videotaping Military Interrogations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Democratic legislator and intelligence oversight maven has finally won on a fight he&#8217;s waged to record military interrogations. As The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704314904575250882211122788.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond\">reports<\/a>, a May 10 memo from Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn instructs interrogators gathering high-value intelligence off the battlefield &#8212; that is, Bagram and Guantanamo Bay in particular &#8212; to get their videocameras out when talking with detainees.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s been a concern of Holt&#8217;s for a while. He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/1259\/lets-go-to-the-videotape\">argued<\/a> that not only will videotaping interrogations function as a measure to prevent detainee abuse, but it&#8217;ll create a useful lessons-learned library for training interrogators or honing their skills. Last October, he got a <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/63212\/videotaped-military-interrogations-may-be-on-the-way\">measure requiring the videotaping into the conference report<\/a> for the defense appropriations bill.<span id=\"more-85057\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pentagon\u2019s long awaited regulation of the provision I secured in last year\u2019s National Defense Authorization Act continues the process of putting our detainee policies back on sound legal footing while improving our ability to get actionable intelligence,&#8221; Holt said in response to a request for comment from TWI (and subsequently emailed out in a press release). &#8220;As President Obama and local law enforcement officials across the country already know, we get better intelligence and protect both the interrogator and the person being interrogated by requiring recordings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Democratic legislator and intelligence oversight maven has finally won on a fight he&#8217;s waged to record military interrogations. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a May 10 memo from Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn instructs interrogators gathering high-value intelligence off the battlefield &#8212; that is, Bagram and Guantanamo Bay in particular &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}