June 24, 2008 on 7:04 pm | Friedrich Braun | Bush, Crime, Law , World Affairs | | Email This Post
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The bellicosity was missing, but the spirit of Col. Nathan Jessup was alive and well at last week’s Senate Armed Services Committee’ hearing. The purpose of the hearing was to determine the origin of policies which legitimized the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? Yeah, Jessup was definitely there. The hearing was spurred by revelations of previously classified documents which confirmed that the torture of those imprisoned by the military was not the spontaneous act of a few demented junior enlistees. The paper trail led all the way back to the White House, and the resulting program of abuse and torture led retired General Antonio Taguba, who investigated similar abuses at Abu Ghraib to conclude that the Bush Administration had engaged in “a systematic regime of torture.”
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