Update: It simply boggles the mind. After eight years of the government from hell one should be numb. But evil deeds done in the name of fighting terrorism continue to shock. The latest story is simply medieval in the level of its sheer brutality. According to the
Daily Telegraph Binyam Mohamed was subjected to torture much worse than water boarding. The young Ethiopian had his
genitals sliced with a scalpel presumably at the hands of his Moroccan captors who were cooperating with CIA and MI6. According to an official source familiar with the classified report on the case, water boarding "is very far down the list of the things they did". In a related rendition case, the Obama administration told a federal court that it would continue to maintain the previous regime's position that information about a subsidiary of Boeing Co. cooperating with the government's rendition program is a state secret and will not be divulged. The case is
Mohamed et al v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Despite
44's expressed lack of appetite for a complete and public accounting of the crimes of the Charlatan's regime, Senate Judiciary Chairman
Patrick Leahy, is absolutely correct when
he stated recently at Georgetown University that Congress has an independent responsibility to conduct a criminal investigation. He is proposing a Senate commission with subpoena power to pursue the truth. The ACLU has published an on-line
archive of documents about US torture policy released under the Freedom of Information Act. Senator Leahy, my ax is available to rent.
The United States, the country that "does not torture" according to the previous occupant, threatened to break off cooperation with its closest ally, United Kingdom, if it disclosed information that a British resident,
Binyam Mohamed, was tortured while being held at a "black site" in Morocco. He is still in detention at the US gulag, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Independent reports the British High Court ruled against a request by the detainee's lawyers to release the information in the possession of the Foreign Office. The judges said they were forced to rule against the request in the face of a threat by the US to end cooperation with Britain against terror. The detainee is an Ethiopian granted refugee status in 1994. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and handed over to US agents. Last year all terrorist charges against him were dropped. He is one of three remaining UK residents at the infamous offshore prison.
Update: It simply boggles the mind. After eight years of the government from hell one should be numb. But evil deeds done in the name of fighting terrorism continue to shock. The latest story is simply medieval in the level of its sheer brutality. According to the Daily Telegraph Binyam Mohamed was subjected to torture much worse than water boarding. The young Ethiopian had his genitals sliced with a scalpel presumably at the hands of his Moroccan captors who were cooperating with CIA and MI6. According to an official source familiar with the classified report on the case, water boarding "is very far down the list of the things they did". In a related rendition case, the Obama administration told a federal court that it would continue to maintain the previous regime's position that information about a subsidiary of Boeing Co. cooperating with the government's rendition program is a state secret and will not be divulged. The case is Mohamed et al v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Despite 44's expressed lack of appetite for a complete and public accounting of the crimes of the Charlatan's regime, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, is absolutely correct when he stated recently at Georgetown University that Congress has an independent responsibility to conduct a criminal investigation. He is proposing a Senate commission with subpoena power to pursue the truth. The ACLU has published an on-line archive of documents about US torture policy released under the Freedom of Information Act. Senator Leahy, my ax is available to rent.