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November 05, 2006
You Couldn't Make This Up
You could not make this up:
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation's most sensitive national security secrets and that their release -- even to the detainees' own attorneys -- "could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage." Terrorists could use the information to train in counter-interrogation techniques and foil government efforts to elicit information about their methods and plots, according to government documents submitted to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 26.
The incredible legal twisting aside, what's the big secret here again? We torture people. The only people that the administration is trying to keep this from are domestic constituencies that still support the administration.
Further down the piece, we learn that we have been kidnapping one-month old babies too:
Another brother, Mahmood Khan, who has lived in the United States since 1989, said in an interview this week that the four were hustled into police vehicles and taken to an undisclosed location, where they were separated and held in windowless rooms. His sister-in-law and her baby remained together, he said.According to Mahmood, Mohammad said they were questioned repeatedly by men who identified themselves as members of Pakistan's intelligence service and others who identified themselves as U.S. officials. Mohammad's wife was released after seven days, and he was released after three months, without charge. He was left on a street corner without explanation, Mahmood said.
Even if one could start to imagine circumstance under which we could start trying to undo some of the damage this administration has done, I fear that it might take a generation or two. That is, of course, there was the means and the will to try to reverse this tide of ill-will that has been unleashed by our actions; a tide surely more dangerous that one Khalid Sheik Mohammed and a few dozen of his murderous, hateful accomplices.
Posted by zeynep at November 5, 2006 01:18 PM
Comments
LOVE your blog and you are right, it will take generations to forget and forgive the cruelties of the Bush Admin. I just hope that there will be some action now with the Dems in power, my hope is that the world has simply had enough of this GOP madness.
The only thing we have to do, the right thing to do is to hold everybody responsible for their war crimes. So many heads need to roll, all of the rats should be put behind bars for the war crimes they have committed. Impeach President Bush!!!
Only when we show the whole world that we root out the rotten apples, stop funding the Zionists, stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, only then could they maybe start believing in us again. But are the Dems strong enough to do this?
It better happen fast before Israel attacks Iran. Then all hell will break lose. I can't in my wildest imagination believe that they actually will do this evil over all evil crimes. America is the only country that has the power to stop Israel. I hope, I wish and I pray for huge change in the American and Israeli destructive politics which are destabilizing the whole world at the moment.
Posted by: Merete at November 10, 2006 06:18 PM