Comments on: Pendleton 8 – NCIS’s use of Psychological Torture http://bearcreekledger.com/2006/09/01/pendleton-8-nciss-use-of-psychological-torture/ US Troop Support and Conservative Banter Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:43:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: NOTR http://bearcreekledger.com/2006/09/01/pendleton-8-nciss-use-of-psychological-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-5049 NOTR Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:24:41 +0000 http://bearcreekledger.com/2006/09/01/pendleton-8-nciss-use-of-psychological-torture/#comment-5049 I have read this reports too, and like you are baffled. This all just doesn't ring right. If it all turns out to be true I will be equally baffled. So far as the rubber hoses on display there, I can't help but feel that is a typical 'Jarine' attempt at humor. Heck, I knew a commander who kept a big Bowie knife in his office and a block of wood. I recall him telling one of the soldiers in for Article 15 that he had the power to cut off the nuts of anyone who broke his law as he hacked on the wood. In a figurative sense he was right. Was it threatening behavior? Yeah, indirectly I suppose, but very illustrative. Today, a story like that would get this guy relieved and put under the jail like almost happened to the battalion commander who put the gun to an Iraqi's head while trying to get IED info from him. Today such things are not tolerated. In some ways that is unfortunate and means that we end up having to process a bunch of kids for offenses in the UCMJ process that otherwise could have been turned around with a little "footlocker counseling." Now NCIS and CID have a checkered history of how they do business. But displaying a rubber hose is not something that I would see as anything more than an attempt at wry humor. If though, that rubber hose gets used on one of our folks then the investigating agency has undertaken the tactics of those they accuse others of doing. I have read this reports too, and like you are baffled. This all just doesn’t ring right. If it all turns out to be true I will be equally baffled. So far as the rubber hoses on display there, I can’t help but feel that is a typical ‘Jarine’ attempt at humor. Heck, I knew a commander who kept a big Bowie knife in his office and a block of wood. I recall him telling one of the soldiers in for Article 15 that he had the power to cut off the nuts of anyone who broke his law as he hacked on the wood. In a figurative sense he was right. Was it threatening behavior? Yeah, indirectly I suppose, but very illustrative. Today, a story like that would get this guy relieved and put under the jail like almost happened to the battalion commander who put the gun to an Iraqi’s head while trying to get IED info from him. Today such things are not tolerated. In some ways that is unfortunate and means that we end up having to process a bunch of kids for offenses in the UCMJ process that otherwise could have been turned around with a little “footlocker counseling.”

Now NCIS and CID have a checkered history of how they do business. But displaying a rubber hose is not something that I would see as anything more than an attempt at wry humor. If though, that rubber hose gets used on one of our folks then the investigating agency has undertaken the tactics of those they accuse others of doing.

]]> By: yankeemom http://bearcreekledger.com/2006/09/01/pendleton-8-nciss-use-of-psychological-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-5043 yankeemom Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:55:52 +0000 http://bearcreekledger.com/2006/09/01/pendleton-8-nciss-use-of-psychological-torture/#comment-5043 So...where's the ACLU? or the human rights groups? Did I miss their yelling about this? So…where’s the ACLU? or the human rights groups? Did I miss their yelling about this?

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