Alterman: Bad apple update

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“It Takes a Nation of Torturers….”  Here’s today’s ‘Bad Apple’ update:

"Military interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been given access to the medical records of individual prisoners, a breach of patient confidentiality that ethicists describe as a violation of international medical standards designed to protect captives from inhumane treatment." 

That’s here.  

Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal,

"U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could put prisoners in "stress positions" for as long as four hours, hood them and subject them to 20-hour-long interrogations, "fear of dogs" and "mild non-injurious physical contact," according to list of techniques Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved in December 2002”

And here’s the cover-up update:...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/