World-News

How many are secretly jailed and tortured in the neocon archipelago?
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/06/17/lost-in-the-system/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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Maj. Gen. Taguba Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes

By Democracy Now!

Retired Major General Antonio Taguba, the Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib, has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes. "The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture," Taguba said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20130.htm

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Goodwill hunting

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

06/19/08

You would think that having decided to permit torture, in the face of all these legal, moral, and practical objections, those members of the Bush administration who did so could assemble a coherent defense: We tortured because it works; we tortured because nothing else worked better. We tortured because after careful consideration, it was worth the moral price we paid. But as Congress begins the painful process of tracing the origins of the government’s abusive interrogation program, its members are now confronted by the last refuge of torturers everywhere: We tortured with the very best of intentions...

http://www.slate.com/id/2193892/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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