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Prisoner torture not an aberration but what we’ve become
No Force, No Fraud by Bob Smith While do-gooders like to view such programs as benefits for our society, they deliberately wear blinders and make excuses for the real results. They applaud the few successes,... ...
The Tenacity of American Militarism
William J. Astore, writing for TomDispatch.com, says: "Recent polls suggest that Americans trust the military roughly three times as much as the president and five times as much as their elected representatives... ...
Canadian Manual Has US on Torture List
Ian Austen, of The New York Times, reports: "A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States among countries that potentially torture or abuse prisoners. The manual is an internal document... ...
General claims Bush gave 'marching orders' on aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo
More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some... ...
Guantanamo detainees tell of abuses
Chillicothe Gazette 09/11/07 Detaine es flinging body waste at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers... ...
Abu Ghraib Swept Under the Carpet
The New York Times writes, "We would have been hard pressed to think of a more sadly suitable coda to the Bush administration's mishandling of the Abu Ghraib nightmare than Tuesday's verdict in the court-martial... ...
Is Justice Possible After Torture?
The U.S. decision five years ago to torture detainees has infected a generation of terrorism cases where it might have once been possible to do justice -- but may not be anymore. http://www.prosp ect.org/cs/articles?articl e=is_justice_possible_afte r_torture U.S.... ...
ACLU Obtains New Details of Possible "Cover-Up" of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse
http://www.commondreams.or g/news2007/0815-07.htm -- ------ ACLU Obtains New Details of Possible "Cover-Up" of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, also... ...
Secrecy, Torture, Religious Zeal Distinguish Mercenaries
Paul Nyden, in an OP-ED for the West Virginia Gazette, writes: "The use of contractors, and their secrecy, shifts more and more authority from Congress to the White House, which makes its own decisions... ...
CIA’s darkest secret
Boston Globe by James Carroll 07/02/07 Every so often, the front page trumpets ethical and legal lapses committed by US intelligence agencies. In Iraq, they have run the gamut from pre war falsification... ...