Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Our shame

AP Exclusive: Documents say detainee near insanity
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
7 Oct 2008
WASHINGTON - A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan and Iraq have long been the subject of human rights complaints and court scrutiny, the documents shed new light on how two American citizens and a legal U.S. resident were treated in military jails inside the United States.

The Bush administration ordered the men to be held in military jails as "enemy combatants" for years of interrogations without criminal charges, which would not have been allowed in civilian jails.
"... two American citizens and a legal U.S. resident were treated in military jails inside the United States."
In our name.

We've allowed W and his minions to destroy our country, in our name!

Stop the madness!

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