Total Jeff Kaye bait. Here’s the Washington Post curtain-raiser on a story I broke about the new structure for interrogating high-value detainees, known as the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team Group for mysterious reasons. Note the decision not to go outside the Army Field Manual. My comment:

 [A]s blogger Jeff Kaye has assiduously documented, the Army Field Manual has been revised in an appendix to allow some torture techniques into a document almost universally described as Geneva Conventions-compliant. For another, one of the approaches taken by the task force that advised the creation of the teams has been to look beyond specific techniques and focus on interrogation approaches geared around the specific detainee being interrogated. But at the same time, it was widely feared in progressive circles that the task force would ultimately erode President Obama’s January executive order restricting interrogation techniques to the boundaries of the Army Field Manual, and that fear hasn’t come to pass.

The formal unveiling of the task force’s results and the HIG (the inevitable acronym) will occur today. I’ll be curious to learn how it plans to deal with the final adjudication of such detainees — that is, how it determines, if at all, interrogation techniques with a mind toward bringing those detainees to trial. Should be a big issue in determining the scope of Obama’s steps toward embracing preventive detention.