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Army Unit from Abu Ghraib to Return to Iraq
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Army reserve unit that became infamous after some of its members were charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison six years ago is returning to Iraq. The Pentagon said Friday that the 372nd Military Police Company of Cresaptown, Md., has been mobilized for its first deployment since 2004, The Associated Press reported. The 372nd is scheduled to leave April 29 for up to three months of training at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by deployment overseas. The unit made headlines around the world when seven of its soldiers faced charges in connection with the mistreatment of detainees ...
White House Urges Correction of Detainee Rape Photo Story
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs I reported Thursday, the White House denied reports in the British press that the Abu Ghraib photos being blocked by the President contained images of rape and sexual abuse.In a rather unusual move, the White House sent out the following email early on Saturday:Important Please Read: From White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs A number of you have asked about or reported on a recent article in the Telegraph that inaccurately described photos which are the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. Both the Department of Defense and the White House have said the article was wrong, and now the ...
White House Briefing: Gibbs Torpedoes British Press on Abuse Photos
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAt today's White House Press Briefing, Robert Gibbs was asked about reports that detainee abuse photos contained images of rape and sexual abuse. He denied the report, taking a big swing at the British press in the process: ...
President Obama Exercises Authority on Detainee Photos but Not Gay Soldiers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI had been planning to write this anyway, but after seeing Lee Stranahan's video "Segregation" I wanted to wait to see if I could get a comment from the White House on this first. ...
Donald Rumsfeld Lied about Torture Policies, Abu Ghraib
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOne thing that the newly-released Senate Armed Services report on the treatment of detainees in US custody makes clear is that Donald Rumsfeld lied to Congress and the American public about the Pentagon's role in systematizing torture at U.S. detention centers at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Testifying before Congress in 2004, Rumsfled offered the following characterization of the Abu Ghraib abuses:"To those Iraqis mistreated by the members of our armed forces, I offer my deepest apology. It was inconsistent with our nation, inconsistent with the teachings of the military, and it was ...
Which Event Most Damaged Bush Presidency?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWe're now just three weeks away from George W. Bush's last day in office, and the sparing over his legacy has heated up a few degrees. In separate interviews with Vanity Fair magazine, former Bush aides Matthew Dowd and Dan Bartlett concur about the "tipping point" responsible for turning the American public against their former boss. The event? Hurricane Katrina and the Bush government's ham-fisted response. Here's Dowd:"The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't ...
Should Torturers Get Medal of Freedom?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyConservative columnist Bill Kristol has long been lead cheerleader for the policies of George W. Bush. In fact, his brand of neo-con logic--like that of his favorite acolyte, Sarah Palin--sees anything less than full support of the Iraq war, domestic wiretapping, waterboarding, Guantanamo Bay prison, extraordinary rendition and the rest as a threat to democracy itself. The Bush dictum, "You're either with us, or you're against us," serves as the guiding beacon to this particular philosophy, honing geopolitical complexity down to sound-bite solutions. To their admirers, Kristol, Bush and Palin ...
French Court to Investigate Rumsfeld
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFormer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, while in France last week, was charged with orchestrating a policy of torture at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq. A complaint was filed with the Paris Prosecutor at the French Court of First Instance under the auspices of the 1984 Convention against Torture, of which both France and the United States are signatories. The Convention requires that France initiate an investigation of individuals accused of torture on its territory and has been used previously by watch groups to bring similar allegations of torture in France. ...
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