News is out about a 2007 secret report by Red Cross officials who visited the 14 "high-value" detainees transferred to Gitmo after stays in CIA secret black hole prison.
The 14 detainees, who had previously been kept in isolation in CIA prisons overseas, gave remarkably uniform accounts of abuse that included beatings, sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures and, in some cases, waterboarding, or simulating drowning.
Unfortunately, the media tends to forget the Red Cross warned Donald Rumfield of detainee abuse in 2003.
Here was the Red Cross Report in February 2004: Click here.
Early Warnings
Beginning in March 2003, the International Red Cross began conducting spot-checks on U.S. prisons in Iraq and reported privately to the State Department, the Pentagon and commanders on the ground concerns about the ill-treatment of prisoners.
In July 2003, Amnesty International announced it had received reports of torture or ill treatment of prisoners by coalition forces in Iraq. And some weeks after a surprise visit to Abu Ghraib in October, the Red Cross reported to U.S. commanders some of the abuses that would later emerge in the criminal investigation. Rumsfeld said he could not recall hearing about this report.
March 19 2003 was when the Iraq war began.
Finally, let's not forget this:
Dec 2, 2002 - Memo from the Department of Defense summarizing approved methods of interrogation, with annotation from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
In the memo pic above, Rumsfield wrote: "However, I stand for 6-10 hours a day.Why is standing limited to 4 hours?"
2 comments:
Again SPB you have the news years before the Media does. Yes I remember Rummy standing there signing proudly the orders of torture approved by Bush/Cheney. Now the US Media is acting shocked. If the US or the UN does nothing to bring charges for these War Crimes we will see the same thing done to Americans. I wonder what American people would say when this action is done to fellow Americans by a Foreign group. Just think some innocent Family on vacation or even kidnapped held without charges tortured/rape/murdered if they live and the group decides to release them with nothing more then get out. How will our country react to that being done to an American citizen? Be careful you get back 7 times what you give out.
Makes me wanna barf...all those good grades in criminal justice meant nothing when no one follows the law anyway.
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