Nation's Largest Papers Play Down Torture Documents...

For reference I have included a link to the actual documents. Are we proud to sing the national?

Washington Post relegates new proof of torture to page 16

Raw Story

The Washington Post, apparently jaded by month after month of reports of torture of Iraq, Afghan, and prisoners held by Americans in various other countries, relegated a thousand pages of new torture documents to page A-16 of Friday’s paper. That story, by R. Jeffrey Smith, is excerpted here.

The New York Times also dumped the story deep into the A-section, with a meager 633 words.

Members of an Army Special Forces unit allegedly punched, slapped, kicked and beat Afghan civilians in two villages southeast of the capital of Kabul last May, prompting official complaints from two senior Army psychological operations officers who were present and said they witnessed the incidents.

The allegation is detailed in internal Army criminal files, released yesterday, that also document other allegations of abuse in Afghanistan as recent as last year. Previous abuse allegations have mostly concerned U.S. military activities in Iraq in 2003; these documents detail parallel conduct in Afghanistan in 2004.

In one strikingly similar event, the Army last year found about half a dozen photographs that depict masked U.S. soldiers standing with their weapons pointed at the heads of handcuffed and hooded or blindfolded detainees at a base in southern Afghanistan and, in one case, pressing a detainee’s head against the wall of a “cage” where he was brought for interrogation... rest of article here:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=96

Here are the ACLU documents:
http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/021605.html

these times and not say this country has lost its moral compass-- on a very large scale.

The Factor Of Evil In The Bush Regime Is A Constant

Several years ago, if someone had said that a state could perpetrate an act of mass murder in which tens of thousands of civilians were butchered, invade a sovereign nation using a casus belli based upon barefaced lies and forgery of documents and whose military forces could commit acts of rape, bullying, sodomy and sexual depravity on a shocking scale and then go on to commit acts of torture, one might have wondered whether such a report came from the annals of the Inquisition or Ancient Rome.

We are not speaking, however, of Tomas de Torquemada or of Caligula. Once again, this news item is about the acts perpetrated by US forces under the regime of George W. Bush and his clique of corporate elitists who not only spent 280 billion USD of their taxpayers" money on their act of mass slaughter in Iraq but also broke practically every international law in the process.

On Monday, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Jakob Kellenberger, spoke with George Bush. About what? Aid from the US government for the Red Cross? No. Pleasantries from two officials and mutual back-slapping? No.
It was about concerns from the Red Cross about acts of torture by US armed forces at the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp.

While President Bush maintains that the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay have been treated humanely, the ICRC states in a leaked report that practices at this camp were "tantamount to torture".

The case against Bush, point by point


Full Story:


http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22...Guantanamo.html

The NYT was one of the worst.

Don