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General Says Bush Personally Ordered Torture
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Raw Story via Alternet - Oct 24, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/66035/
General Says Bush Personally Ordered Torture Tactics
By Nick Juliano, Raw Story
More than 100,000 pages of newly released government do***ents to
demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed"
scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who
were not even expected of having terrorist ties, according to a
just-published book.
In Administration of Torture, two American Civil Liberties Union
attorneys detail the findings of a years-long investigation and court
battle with the administration that resulted in the release of massive
amounts of data on prisoner treatment and the deaths of US-held
prisoners.
"[T]he do***ents show unambiguously that the administration has adopted
some of the methods of the most tyrannical regimes," write Jameel
Jaffer and Amrit Singh. "Do***ents from Guantanamo describe prisoners
shackled in excruciating 'stress positions,' held in freezing-cold
cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorized with military dogs, and
deprived of human contact for months."
Most of the do***ents on which Administration of Torture is based were
obtained as a result of ongoing legal fights over a Freedom of
Information Act request filed in October 2003 by the ACLU and other
human rights and anti-war groups, the ACLU said in a news release.
The do***ents show that prisoner abuse like that found at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq was hardly the isolated incident that the Bush
administration or US military claimed it was. By the time the prisoner
abuse story broke in mid-2004 the Army knew of at least 62 other
allegations of abuse at different prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
authors re****t.
Drawing almost exclusively from the do***ents, the authors say there is
a stark contrast between the public statements of President Bush and
then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the policies those and
others in the administration were advocating behind the scenes.
President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who
asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at
Guantanamo, the general claims in do***ents re****ted in the book.
(c) 2007 Independent Media Institute.
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