Apr 27 2009

April 28, 2004: Abu Ghraib

(11 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS’s ”60 Minutes II.” The photos had been taken by U.S. military personnel responsible for detaining and interrogating Iraqi prisoners arrested following the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Torture at Abu Ghraib

American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go?, who helped break the story.

About Standard Operating Procedure, a new documentary by Erroll Morris on Abu Ghraib

A transcript follows.

Morris directed the Oscar-winning “The Fog of War,” ” Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,” “The Thin Blue Line” and other noted documentaries.

About Standard Procedure – Trailer

Mary Mapes: Looking Back at Abu Ghraib 5 Years Later

We had gathered interviews, anecdotes and documents that indicated American soldiers there were regularly committing acts that violated military law, international treaties and moral boundaries. More ominously, there were signs that these men and women were acting on orders from higher ups.

All we needed to prove the story were the awful pictures we’d heard so much about.

Atrocities In Theaters of Occupations get your brothers and sisters killed, long before the outside world learns of them!!

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    • jimstaro on April 27, 2009 at 02:25
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    ‘chain of command’ on torture

       

    An independent commission is needed to determine who authorized the use of abusive interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists, a leading advocate of such a panel said Sunday.

       “I want to know who was it who made the decisions that we will violate our own laws; we’ll violate our own treaties; we will even violate our own Constitution,” Sen. Patrick Leahy told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

       “That we don’t know,” said Leahy, D-Vermont, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “We don’t know what that chain of command was.”

       Former President George Bush repeatedly denied that his administration authorized the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody. But a set of legal opinions released earlier in this month documented the Bush administration’s justification for coercive interrogation techniques including waterboarding, which has been considered torture since the Spanish Inquisition.

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