CNN Highlights CPT Hill Case Tonight
Tonight, Thursday Feb 18, 2010, CNN Anderson Cooper’s 360 will highlight the case of CPT Roger Hill and Dog Company, 1-506th Infantry.  We expect a fairly in depth look at the circumstances surrounding CPT Hill’s case, totaling around 30-35 minutes of total story line, interview, commentary, etc. The focus is on the need for more effective Rules of Engagement (ROE) and detention policies to better match up to the asymmetric enemies we face today, especially in NATO led Afghanistan.
In the Fall of 2008, CPT Hill and his men faced Army criminal charges of detainee abuse. Because they received no support or instructions from their higher headquarters, they attempted to get confessions from detainees of probable Taliban ambushes of US forces. They would have to release the detainees unless they had evidence through confessions to turn them over to the Afghanistan forces. Without confessions, the detainees were to be let free to continue their liaison with the Taliban from inside the US forward operating camp.
