email of 2/11/09 from the NRCAT - Tell the Task Force: No Torture, No Exceptions!

Dear Friends:

We recently contacted you to ask you to express gratitude to President Obama for his executive order halting torture. Thank you for doing that.

Now it's time to contact the Special Task Force on Interrogation and Transfer Policies, a group of high-level members of the Administration who will be reviewing U.S. interrogation policies and recommending changes. It is vital that the Special Task Force recommend only those changes that will strengthen, not weaken, the rules against torture.

Please contact members of the Special Task Force and ask them to recommend three things:

that all interrogation techniques be made public - that no agency can use a secret set of interrogation guidelines;

that all approved interrogation techniques comply with the "golden rule" standard - specifically that they would be considered both legal and moral if used upon a captured American;

that Appendix M is either modified or removed from the Army Field Manual. Appendix M currently allows techniques, such as prolonged separation - or isolation - that can be used to torture detainees.

We have created a form email that you can use to contact Members of the Task Force. Please go to (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2162/t/3961/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26669) here to access it.

Thank you for your help!

Sincerely,

Linda Gustitus, President, NRCAT
Rev. Richard Killmer, Executive Director, NRCAT