Bill Directs Army to Disclose Graduates (SOA)

Source: AP

Bill Directs Army to Disclose Graduates

Aug 7, 9:07 PM (ET)

By BEN EVANS

WASHINGTON (AP) - An Army school in Georgia that trains Latin American military officers would be required to disclose the names of its graduates under legislation newly passed by the House.

The Pentagon has concealed the records since 2005. A human rights group says the secrecy was prompted by revelations in the 1990s that some graduates had later become involved in human rights abuses and criminal activity in their home countries.

"I don't see why taxpayers don't have a right to know who we're training," said Joao Da Silva, a spokesman for School of the Americas Watch, a leading critic of the Army school. "They are being brought here with taxpayers' dollars."

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In the mid-1990s, the Pentagon acknowledged that training manuals previously used at the school recommended bribery, blackmail, threats and torture. In 2001, the school was overhauled and renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Officials say its curriculum now includes a renewed emphasis on human rights.


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The Clintons are neoliberal globalists. Just as Bill needed to keep SOA open to train new cadres of murderers and torturers to be used to oppress the peoples of the Americas, a President Hillary will do the same in order to restore American hegemony in Latin America.