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Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:25 |
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The Talking Dog: You've suggested that the publicly available (i.e. declassified) data that you have reviewed was "scrubbed" of mention of atrocities (particularly homicides and rapes) against children, and in many cases, women, though in the case of photographs of the latter, for example, media organizations have held back release of photographs of women who have been abused, though are records of abuse-- perhaps or probably rising to the level of war crimes-- against both women and children in the investigation reports you have read. Since the publication of the book, have any additional data emerged on this point, and can you tell me if you are aware of whether media are complicit in this "scrubbing", for example, if DOD has asked them not to release pictures of women abused, or if something else is going on?
Steven Miles: I do not know. The material that you cite is in documents. The media will not carry it. I have a planned publication on the children.
From interview with The Talking Dog September 16th 2006
http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/000657.html
"Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."
Seymour Hersh, speaking at ACLU event, July 2004
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:35 |
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The 13 people who made torture possible - by Marcy Wheeler
The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
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Monday, 25 May 2009 17:34 |
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From Digby, one of the most influential bloggers of them all, at Hullabalo. Other very influential bloggers like Glenn Greenwald, Duncan Black and Andrew Sullivan will frequently tell readers to go read Digby for the most trenchant commentary on a topic. They have even coined a phrase, “ This has been another edition of what Digby said.”
”…The good news is that some religious organizations have organized around this issue:
Since January 2006, the more than 250 religious organizations comprising the National Religious Campaign Against Torture have worked together to end U.S.-sponsored torture. During 2008, the religious community advocated for a Presidential Executive Order ending torture. It happened. On January 22, President Obama issued an Executive Order halting torture.
Now the task is to make sure that U.S.-sponsored torture never happens again. To accomplish this goal, our nation needs to put safeguards in place to prevent its recurrence. We will better understand what safeguards are needed if we have a comprehensive understanding of what happened – who was tortured, why they were tortured, and who ordered the torture. As a nation we need the answers to those questions.
Therefore, NRCAT is calling for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate U.S. torture policies and practices. To bolster this call, we are asking you and other people of faith to endorse the statement "U.S.-Sponsored Torture: A Call for a Commission of Inquiry."
As the religious community made a difference in encouraging the President to halt torture, we now must urge our leaders to create a Commission of Inquiry to help ensure that U.S.-sponsored torture never happens again.
Click here for more information about this initiative, including other ways you and your congregation can help to secure a Commission of Inquiry.” |
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:32 |
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Video here.
Torture. The word appears almost daily in the headlines of newspapers across the country. As long-held secrets of the Bush administration's policies on detention and interrogation are revealed, Americans are increasingly asking questions: behind the closed doors of far-away prisons, what acts were committed in our name? Who committed these acts? And will they be held to account? Can a nation that has committed torture afford to walk away from its past?
"Torture on Trial" is a Link TV original production that investigates the history of interrogations in the "War on Terrorism", and the growing movement calling for accountability for those who authorized and participated in torture.
Featured guests include:
George Hunsinger
Founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture
Jane Mayer
Staff Writer with The New Yorker & Author of "The Dark Side"
Mark Danner
UC Berkeley Journalism Professor, Author of "Torture and Truth" & Contributor to The New York Review of Books
Elisa Massimino
Executive Director of Human Rights First
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.)
Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
Maj. Matthew Alexander
U.S. Air Force Interrogator |
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 14:56 |
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Article here. |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 17:11 |
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From the Washington Post |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 14:28 |
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