by Lila Rajiva

Oversupply. Not law but economics tells us how we got to Abu Ghraib. The laws only follow economics. Private interrogators driven to produce information at any cost come up with random civilians who with a little gentle persuasion can cough up information. The terminally free market gave us the dismal team of torture-happy prison goons that John Ashcroft sent out to do unto Iraqis what had been done unto American prisoners for decades. The spy business is now infested with a network of lobbyists and government connections as thick as the one in the defense business. With one nasty difference. While defense contractors are at least monitored, intelligence contractors have classified budgets and work in secret without proper oversight...

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