2.14.2005

When will we stop calling these "isolated incidents"

and call them what they are, systematic torture encouraged and condoned from the top?

Judge advocates - uniformed legal advisers known as JAGs who were assigned to a secret war crimes task force - repeatedly objected to aggressive interrogations by a separate intelligence unit at Camp Delta, where Taliban and al-Qaida suspects have been jailed since January 2002.

But Pentagon officials "didn't think this was a big deal, so they just ignored the JAGs," a senior military source said.

The military lawyers' actions had never been disclosed and are the first known cases of lower-level officers resisting interrogations at the Cuban camp that might constitute torture. Some officials called them "unsung heroes" for risking their careers by crossing senior officials who approved the techniques.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/10889627.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

We find the same behavior towords prisoners in Afganistan, Iraq and Cuba. It goes back as far as when they stripped the 'American Taliban' and took pictures of him taped to a gurney.

Hoods and leashes do not just 'appear' in these prisons - someone had to requisition and bring them in.

This is a disgrace.

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