White House takes swipe at British press over Daily Telegraph report

what about the torturers themselves, at least in the case of our people, is it not a soldier's duty to disobey unlawful orders?

oh and i hatethemall and cynker... EPIC FAIL. pushing back the release dates of the evidence to the general public (even the ACLU is ok with the pics being held back temporarily, he's doing it to not turn the middle east into a powder keg) does not make POTUS culpable in bush/cheney's crime spree.

In acting to suppress the images and protect the torturers, Obama has made himself an accomplice in these crimes. Moreover, in the absence of criminal investigation, there is every reason to believe that similar crimes continue in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

The photos need to be made public . I you don't want to see , don't look . As long as they are "secret" , imagination can run amuck .... People could say they were actual photos of aliens .... The truth will set you free . Those who ordered this torture , must explain it in court of law .

One can only react with horror. Contained in the stories and images of the torture of defenseless prisoners, some of them boys and women, is the true face of US imperialism, which finds no crime beneath its dignity in its effort to subjugate Iraq and Afghanistan.

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But what of the high-ranking officers who oversaw, endorsed and most likely ordered the torture and rape of prisoners? If there are 2,000 photographs of prisoner torture that fell under the control of the Pentagon, how many more cases were not photographed? It is clear that the torture and rape of prisoners went far beyond the actions of “a few bad apples.” This torture and sexual humiliation of prisoners—up to and including rape—can only be described as the systematic policy of the US military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), sanctioned at the highest levels of government. Indeed, the generals’ opposition to further publication of the photos is likely based in part on their own association with the crimes.

The policy of torture came from higher still, however, as recently released Justice Department legal memos and other evidence show. Various forms of torture, including forced nudity and sexual humiliation were studied, justified, and individually approved by top White House and congressional officials. A US Senate Armed Services Committee report issued in April reveals that Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally approved 15 “harsh interrogation” methods. A version of Rumsfeld’s document was used, verbatim, at Abu Ghraib, according to the report. (See “Bush, top cabinet officials monitored torture of detainees”)

In his Telegraph interview, Taguba solidarized himself with Obama’s decision to suppress the photos. Taguba’s own investigation in 2004 was in fact ...............

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American Torture Techniques

American Torture Techniques

By Tom Head, About.com

The Big Question:

The Bush administration has been accused of using "torture-lite," or "moderate physical pressure," against detainees. In practical terms, what does this mean?

Psychological Torture:

The number one criterion for American torture is that it must leave no physical marks, and psychological torture certainly qualifies. Whether U.S. officials are threatening to execute a prisoner's family or just falsely claiming that the leader of his terror cell is dead, it's hard to imagine a form of torture that is more effective--or easier to get away with--than a steady diet of misinformation and threats.
Sensory Deprivation:
When you're locked up in a cell, it's already remarkably easy to lose track of time. Eliminate all noise and light sources--or, as was done to the Guantanamo prisoners at one point, simply bind, blindfold, and earmuff a prisoner into temporary oblivion--and life becomes a hellish, sanity-destroying experience. Whether prisoners subjected to long-term sensory deprivation can still tell fiction from reality is, of course, another question...................

THE TELEGRAPH is so staid I personally do not read it.

This is the same newspaper, revered in Britain by conservative Tory party voters, that Obama has tried to suggest is an untruthful rag sheet.

It speaks volumes about the President of the Untied States and leaves me no hope for that nation to extract itself politically from the quagmire of shame, deceit and stealth that it finds its government mired in.

The people of America deserve better.

Is this an end to liberty?

READ THIS:

Gibbs twice more criticised the British press. "I think if you do an even moderate Google search, you're not going to find many of these newspapers and truth within, say, 25 words of each other," he said, adding, "I hate to lend any more credibility to nonfactual reports."
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American Torture Techniques

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