Seton Hall Law Students Reveal That Generals Knew Guantanamo Detainees Were Tortured

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Source: EIN Press Wire

FBI Agents Repeatedly Reported on Inhumane Interrogation Techniques at GTMO Resulting in Unreliable and Counterproductive; Information

General Schmidt's Investigation Uncovered Numerous Abuses Which Were Omitted from Both His Report and His Congressional Testimony

Newark, NJ /PRAvenueNW/ -- Today Seton Hall Law delivered a report establishing that military officials at the highest levels were aware of the abusive interrogation techniques employed at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay (GTMO), and misled Congress during testimony. In addition, FBI personnel reported that the information obtained from inhumane interrogations was unreliable.

Professor Mark Denbeaux, Director of the Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research, commented on the findings: "Who knew about the torture at GTMO? Turns out they all did. It's not news that the interrogators were torturing and abusing detainees. We've got FBI reports attesting to this. But now we've discovered that the highest levels knew about the torture and abuse, and covered it up.

"Abu Ghraib was the flashpoint and provoked the FBI to formally hand its reports to the DOD, which in turn forced the DOD to respond with what became known as the Schmidt Report. Schmidt's investigation was essentially a whitewash, but, ironically, the abuse was so pervasive that his team turned up still more incidents. To conceal the problems documented by both the FBI and the military, the DOD published an incomplete, sanitized report, culminating in Schmidt testifying before Congress that there was no torture or abuse at GTMO.

"Five generals were either complicit in the abusive interrogation techniques or were central figures in their cover-up. They concealed these practices from Congress, to which they are ultimately accountable. They undermined our democracy, and undercut America's claim to the moral high ground in the fight against terror."

Read more: http://www.einnews.com/pr-news/26264-seton-hall-law-students-reveal-that-generals-knew-guantanamo-detainees-were-tortured

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full report here: http://law.shu.edu/center_policyresearch/reports/torture_who_knew_final.pdf

[saigon68]

1. Mr Obama will do nothing about this

ie: let's put the past behind us

[jeff30997]

2. Yeah! Go for the big fishes!

And stop blaming the plankton dammit.

[atreides1]

3. Never Happen

We have to go forward and not worry about what happened, at least that's what the administration is expected to say.

Anyone taking bets?

[global1]

4. The Plankton If Given The Chance Will Choke The Big Fishes......

put some pressure on these Generals. They'll give up the big fishes.

[jeff30997]

7. Yes,I know what you mean and I agree but...

In this type of situation what will happen is that they will punish a couple of scapegoats and

that's it.Problem solved.(Yeah,right.) Argh!

[pattmarty]

5. ANY military officer that knew of this and did nothing or worse...................

..........covered up and lied about it, should be forced out of the military immediately and publicly shamed. So much for honor and country, BULLSHIT!

[Supersedeas]

6. and yet the ABA in their silence lends tacit approval to Judge Bybee and the Addington crew

[chill_wind]

8. Meanwhile, Congress pretends it has a desire to investigate.

Behind closed doors. Oh Ms Feinstein, maybe you need to call a few Generals and DHS types back into Congress to explain their lies.

Oh wait-- she's just doing a secret review of the CIA.

Warren Rudman Joins CIA Torture Amnesty

CIA Director Leon Panetta tapped an old friend, former Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH), to help Dianne Feinstein and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence grant full amnesty to CIA torturers. As Jason Leopold reports, Rudmanserved on the Senate Intelligence Committee, will work as Panetta’s “special adviser” working exclusively to assist the CIA in dealing with inquiries from the Senate Intelligence Committee...

Rudman was vice-chair of the Senate committee that did a pathetic "investigation" of the Iran-contra scandal. That's the perfect "qualification" for his new job, as Leopold reports:

the Senate Intelligence Committee will simply "review" the CIAs' interrogation and detention practices. The panel is not conducting an "investigation" and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s Democratic chair, and Missouri Republican Kit Bond, have avoided the use of the words "probe" and "investigation" to describe their work.

Feinstein and Bond said in a news release that the committee will conduct a yearlong, secret “review” of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.

(...)

http://www.democrats.com/warren-rudman-joins-cia-torture-amnesty

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Special Prosecutors. NOW.

[No Elephants]

9. Seems as though the only question is: How much noise are we voters willing to make about this?