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MiaCulpa Donating Member (741 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:55 PM
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Unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death
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Source: Raw Story - Stephen Webster

The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. These previously unreported pages detail repeated use of "abusive" behavior, even to the point of prisoner deaths.

The documents, obtained by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information Act request, contain a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, who was tapped to conduct a comprehensive review of Defense Department interrogation operations. Church specifically calls out interrogations at Bagram Air base in Afghanistan as "clearly abusive, and clearly not in keeping with any approved interrogation policy or guidance."

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Unredacted_documents_reveal_prisoners_tortured_to_0212.html



Full story with links to original report documents at the link.

-Diane
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