Soldiers often did not know who was in charge or how they were supposed to treat detainees.
The president decided to do so by treating detainees as military prisoners rather than criminal defendants.
The administration has proposed narrowing the provision, arguing that it is too vague and does not give interrogators enough guidance in how to treat detainees.
She also said China must treat detainees humanely in a way that adheres to international norms.
America needs to revisit the Golden Rule and then multiply it by 10 and treat detainees that many times better.
As a result, the prisons treat detainees just as they do criminals, or worse.
Instead, the MoU contains simply a bland promise to treat detainees 'in a humane and proper manner'.
As early as late 2001, the issue of how to treat detainees became a subject of heated debate inside the White House.
It was a huge mistake to treat detainees as they did.
It raises the stakes, they said, for how American troops treat detainees in military custody.