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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Highway Hoss: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [qb]But in that all too serious sort of way, it�s the Pentagon culture at to it�s most opaque as it attempts to stifle information and prevent people from knowing what�s going on. [/qb][/QUOTE]No suprise there, Jay; the Pentagon had been sitting on this report for two months before the photos release forced them to declassify it. As Sydney Blumenthal notes in [URL=http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0506-12.htm]this article[/URL] Bush and his aides were positively inept about handling the situation; most of them never read the report (!)....and when it did became public they floundered about trying to put a positive spin on it. The ineptness and cluelessness of this administration beggars belief sometimes. As the article noted, what we are seeing in Abu Ghazi is just one part of an entire network of an extra-legal Gulag network that the administration has set up in several areas (including Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay) where suspects are held for long periods of times without being charged and their rights are systematically violated. There have also been cases where prisoners were shipped to other countires that then tortured them. Thing is both the President and Republican leaders in Congress are doing their damndest to suppress investigations into this matter; but as far as I'm concerned its too late.The genie is already out of the bottle and the battle for hearts and minds is effectively over. BTW one thing the article notes is the involvement of "independent contracters" in the deaths of a number of prisoners where these detainees are being held. I think there should come a serious reckioning on the involvement of these contracters not only in Abu Ghazi but in other "detention facilities" as well. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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