“In November 2002, military lawyers were already expressing reservations about the interrogation techniques proposed for use at Guantánamo. … Major General Jack Rives, the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force, was more pointed in his analysis, and observed that several of the exceptional interrogation techniques ‘on their face, amount[ed] to violations of domestic criminal law and the UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice].’ General Rives also urged that consideration ‘be given to the possible adverse effects on U.S. Armed Forces culture and self-image.’ He noted that American armed forces had been ‘consistently trained to take the legal and moral *high-road* in the conduct of our military operations regardless of how others may operate.’ “
– Scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu, “Two Narratives of Torture,” Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Article 2, Spring 2009