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Book: Government documents show Bush ordered and Rumsfeld "personally involved" in Gitmo abuse

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:00 PM EDT

More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents ...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.
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President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in the book.

The ACLU also found that an Army investigator reported Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the interrogation of a Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani.

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Raw Story:

Most of the documents 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 documents 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 report.

And that's likely just the tip of what could be gleaned from these documents. Not everything gets released or exposed via FOIAs. "National Security," don't ya know.

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Reply#1 - Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:04 PM EDT
Partisan Hack

War crimes trials here we come...

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Reply#2 - Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:59 PM EDT
Gas Pants Press

Smoking guns for any opposition party out there. Calling opposition parties.... Hello? Anyone?

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#2.1 - Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:31 PM EDT
firsty

i hope so!

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#2.2 - Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:56 PM EDT
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