Congress dozes while detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0508,hentoff,61345,6.html
http://tinyurl.com/7y8b8


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Torture Scandal Expands to America: Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib

Here's what happens when there is no accountability: "The Justice Department's inspector general has substantiated some of the prisoners' allegations [of torture and mistreatment] - and some incidents were captured on videotape. But the Justice Department has declined to prosecute any federal correction officer" at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park in New York.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2877

It won’t be a pretty sight when Bush’s dedicated supporters reach the breaking point. Make no mistake they will finally realize that lowering ourselves to the methods of our enemies damages the ultimate cause. As one former FBI agent is quoted in a recent magazine article, “Brutalization doesn’t work. We know that. Besides, you lose your soul.”

http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2005/as-editorials-0221-editorial-5b18q4103.htm
http://snipurl.com/d062


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Despite repeated denials from President Bush and others in his administration that the U.S. government does not engage in torture or hand over prisoners to nations that do, a number of eyewitness accounts and press reports contradict those White House assertions.

http://207.44.245.159/article8148.htm

Attorneys for the Justice Department appeared before a federal judge in Washington this month and asked him to dismiss a lawsuit over the detention of a U.S. citizen, basing their request not merely on secret evidence but also on secret legal arguments.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/10960904.htm
http://snipurl.com/d061


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The agency ran a secret charter service, shuttling detainees to interrogation facilities worldwide. Was it legal? What's next? A NEWSWEEK investigation

by Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and John Barry

Newsweek

Feb. 28 issue - Like many detainees with tales of abuse, Khaled el-Masri had a hard time getting people to believe him. Even his wife didn't know what to make of his abrupt, five-month disappearance last year. Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, says he was taken off a bus in Macedonia in south-central Europe while on holiday on Dec. 31, 2003, then whisked in handcuffs to a motel outside the capital city of Skopje. Three weeks later, on the evening of Jan. 23, 2004, he was brought blindfolded aboard a jet with engines noisily revving, according to his lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic. Masri says he climbed high stairs "like onto a regular passenger airplane" and was chained to clamps on the bare metal floor and wall of the jet. ... The rest of the article is at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6999272/site/newsweek/

© Virginia Metze

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=7275
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345765/posts


Informant: Charles Bremer

A UK diplomat says Britain is part of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the truth?:

Our former ambassador to Uzbekistan refuses to go quietly. The Government should come clean about interrogation methods, he tells Raymond Whitaker...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=612865
http://snipurl.com/cy23


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