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Wednesday, 27 April 2005
Human Rights Watch special counsel Reid Brody:

"It’s now clear that abuse of detainees has happened all over -- from Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay to a lot of third-country dungeons where the United States has sent prisoners.  And probably quite a few other places we don’t even know about."

For more, read their latest report on command responsibility for torture of U.S. detainees.  If time is short, the executive summary is worth a look.  Picking a paragraph almost at random:

Under Director Tenet’s direction, the CIA also: “disappeared” detainees, holding them in long-term incommunicado detention in secret locations without informing or letting anybody know about  their fate or whereabouts; “rendered” detainees to countries in which they were apparently tortured; hid detainees from the ICRC [Red Cross]; and transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

And how was Tenet punished?  George W. Bush gave him the Medal of Freedom.




 
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