A brilliant post by Andrew Sullivan: In all the discussion of John McCain’s recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. […]
Sounds kind of convenient: The US military has lost a year’s worth of records describing the Guantanamo confinement of Osama bin Laden’s driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive’s war court hearing. Lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, asked for the records to support their argument that prolonged isolation and harassment at the […]
Please support Duncan Hunter in his fight for the 2008 RNC Presidential nomination. Here is a good look at your new man: Come on, you can do it. This man needs your support dear Republicans. He proved to the world that we do not torture at Gitmo by simply showing what we feed them. He […]
Wow – here is another great pick by the Bush White House: BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Gen. Bantz Craddock, the chief of U.S. Southern Command who oversees the controversial Guantanamo prison, is to succeed Gen. James Jones as NATO’s top commander of operations, the alliance said on Friday. Craddock will replace Jones as Supreme Allied Commander […]
It looks like Murtha is wanting the shooting of Iraqis dealt with right: “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on “This Week” on ABC. “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.” This echoes of Abu […]
When Bush signed the torture ban into law in December he used his “executive privilege” to make sure that a he could pick and choose where it applies. It seems like he wasted no time either: Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law […]
We continue to hear stories of torture from Guantanimo Bay. The administration continues to denounce the claims. They do admit to some “extreme†interrogation tactics that result in good intelligence however. The big question is; If the intelligence is so good then why must we “rig†the trials? Leaked emails from two former military prosecutors […]
After weeks of hearing Hitler comparisons and over exaggerated arguments about the treatment, rather it be good or bad, of Guantanamo detainees, we now hear about an official military investigation uncovering some mistreatment of the prisoners. Now while this report does not give gut wrenching accounts of horrid torture practices like we heard was common […]
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