Pentagon Said to Probe Guantanamo Reports

[maddezmom]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Pentagon (news - web sites) said Friday it was investigating allegations of abuse by an Australian prisoner at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay.

Also, a U.S. senator from New Mexico said he asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to explain reports the government tried to suppress reports by U.S. military personnel and FBI (news - web sites) of abuse at U.S.-run detention camps in Afghanistan (news - web sites), Iraq (news - web sites) and Guantanamo.


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Additional documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and released by the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) show a special operations task force in Iraq sought to silence Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who may have observed abusive interrogations.


"We need to have a full accounting of what has happened in connection with efforts to suppress information," Sen. Jeff Bingaman (news, bio, voting record), D-N.M., told AP on Friday, a day after he sent a letter to Rumsfeld. "The main focus has been on abuse allegations, but now it seems pretty clear there were efforts to prevent people from properly reporting incidents of abuse."

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=10&u=/ap/20041211/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_abuse

[BeHereNow]

1. Oh for CRIPES sake!

Are we REALLY supposed to trust that
the fox will investigate the hen house?!?!?!?
Jeebus H. Christ!
How stupid do they think we are?
BHN

[Just Me]

2. "Accountability"? By this neoCONfascist administration? NOT.

We already know all about you,...your "ambitions",...your "visions",...your cynicism and diminution of human value and spirit.

You are the scum of human potential,...and, unfortunately, are in power to project the worst upon the best of all humanity.

But, you will fail.

While you succumb to the worst,...humanity will prove its best.

All I can say is,...shame on you.