NEW EVIDENCE ABUSES AUTHORIZED AT TOP OF ADMINISTRATION

[Goldmund]

New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure on the White House.

The Sunday Telegraph understands that four confidential Red Cross documents implicating senior Pentagon civilians in the Abu Ghraib scandal have been passed to an American television network, which is preparing to make them public shortly.

According to lawyers familiar with the Red Cross reports, they will contradict previous testimony by senior Pentagon officials who have claimed that the abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison was an isolated incident.

"There are some extremely damaging documents around, which link senior figures to the abuses," said Scott Horton, the former chairman of the New York Bar Association, who has been advising Pentagon lawyers unhappy at the administration's approach. "The biggest bombs in this case have yet to be dropped."

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_9016.shtml

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1. Unit Says It Gave Earlier Warning of Abuse in Iraq

Beginning in November, a small unit of interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison began reporting allegations of prisoner abuse, including the beatings of five blindfolded Iraqi generals, in internal documents sent to senior officers, according to interviews with military personnel who worked in the prison.

The disclosure of the documents raises new questions about whether senior officers in Iraq were alerted about serious abuses at the prison before January. Top military officials have said they only learned about abuses then, after a soldier came forward with photographs of the abuse.

"We were reporting it long before this mess came out," said one of several military intelligence soldiers interviewed in Germany and the United States who asked not to be identified for fear they would jeopardize their careers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/international/middleeast/14ABUS.html?hp

[AP]

2. The Penatagon was screening the Battle of Algiers in October 2002!

Of course this goes to the top.

[whistle]

3. Well, the very top of the administration is VP Cheney...

...so that still leaves Shrub in the clear. If they decide to follow protocol, then Bush will have to take the rap. Is any of this impeachable?

[gristy]

4. dupe

go here for some good discussion: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x619360

[buff2]

5. So............could this be the reason

ASScroft won't release any documents? It's too bad the repukes control all levels of government. They will all cover each other's asses.......so what can the dems do? How can we get justice when they run it all......right up to the SCOTUS? As long as those scumbags are in power they will continue to commit their crimes and flipping us the bird. This is a horrible situation. Everyone else has to pay for their crimes,but not the Bu$h and his gang of thugs. :argh:

[drthais]

6. I thought it was very interesting

that, during Asscrofts grilling
(replayed again today on C-Span, thank you)
he was asked if Bush ever gave a directive
regarding torture.a directive of any kind
and Asscroft kept saying
that Bush had never given a directive
'that was counter to the COnstitution, to US laws, etc etc,'
this lead sme to belive that he DID IN FACT
give a directove of SOME KIND
which has yet to see daylight

stay tuned, I'm sure

HA HA HA HA HA

[Moderator]

7. Duplicate, please continue discussion in thread below.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x619360