all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Originally, Geneva Conventions protections were stripped only from Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. But later Rumsfeld himself, impressed by the success of techniques used against Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly set in motion a...
I’ve just realised that the Rumsfeld lackey that Sy Hersh fingers as directly responsible for creating and enlarging the Pentagon torture regime, Stephen Cambone (Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence), was mentioned in passing...
This is the Kubark Manual, an early official US DOD guide to torture for government agents. Reading about the perverse muscle seizure drugs which are being injected into Afghani prisoners to freeze them rigid...
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand...