[SOC] BUSH SUPPORTS OUTSOURCING PRISON ABUSE TO INDIA

[Ian C. Purdie]

BUSH SUPPORTS OUTSOURCING PRISON ABUSE TO INDIA


Calling Center in Bangalor to Harass Detainees


President George W. Bush attempted today to explain a newly released White
House memo outlining a controversial plan to outsource prison abuse to India.

According to the memo, the White House has been actively exploring the
possibility of establishing a telephone calling center in Bangalor that would
harass Iraqi detainees at all hours of the night with highly annoying
telemarketing inquiries.

The memo details a scenario in which telemarketers from India would instruct
Iraqi prisoners to remove their clothing and then would badger them with
complicated offers involving their long-distance phone service.

The Bangalor callers would also subject Iraqi prisoners to lengthy consumer
research surveys about their breakfast cereal and television viewing
preferences, the memo said.

With Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at his side, President Bush defended
the unorthodox interrogation procedures, arguing, "We know that telemarketing
is a tool of last resort, but we are at war."

Charles Claybourn, a spokesman for the human rights group Amnesty
International, attacked the White House proposals: "This wrongheaded plan
involves not only calling prisoners, but also placing them on hold for
forty-five minutes or longer with Celine Dion music, in clear violation of the
Geneva Conventions."

On the campaign trail in Ohio, presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry
blasted the proposal to send American torture jobs overseas, telling his
audience, "With our fragile economy, we can ill afford losing even one prison
abuse job to India."

Mr. Kerry said there were "more effective ways" to get prisoners to talk, such
as repeatedly playing them his stump speech about health care.


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