CORRECTED - US prisoner abuse widespread

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5426172

In Washington story headlined "Tough questions on US prisoner abuse still to come" please read in 4th paragraph ...Alberto
Gonzales... instead of Alberto Gonzalez... . Also in 4th paragraph please read ...his involvement as White House legal counsel in
memos which laid down... instead of ...memos he wrote as White House legal counsel, in which he laid down... .

In paragraph 10 please read ...A senior Bush administration official who declined to be identified denied that such an executive
order existed... instead of ...That memo has not been made public and administration officials have declined any comment on it.
(Making clear administration officials deny such an executive order exists).

A Corrected story follows:

By Alan Elsner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New documents showing widespread U.S. abuse of prisoners overseas did not provoke the intense
backlash of the Abu Ghraib photos but could prove more damaging at confirmation hearings for President George W. Bush's attorney
general nominee, rights activists say.

In recent days, the American Civil Liberties Union has released several thousand pages of documents in which FBI agents
complained about prisoner abuse starting in 2002 and continuing into this year.

The documents indicate abuse by U.S. personnel occurred at various detention centres in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba and was not
confined to Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, where reports and disturbing photos of such abuse first surfaced.

Bush nominee Alberto Gonzales will be in the spotlight because of his involvement as White House legal counsel in memos which
laid down a new definition of torture that did not include some forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. He called some Geneva
Conventions provisions "quaint" and said its protections did not apply to detainees in the "war on terror."

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[GetTheRightVote]

1. This is getting really good, he will never be appointed and all I can

say is thank God for these pages of information concerning the abuses. How sick are these people anyway, oh my God, please let it all end with these thugs in prison themselves. Impeach Bush for allowing this all to happen as War Chief, so ulgy.

[teryang]

2. The fascist lawyers league, Yoo, Dinh, and Gonzales

A disgrace to the profession, traitors to the Constitution.

[NYC]

3. This needs to be widely disseminated.

[VegasWolf]

4. Doh! With chimp and rummy personally approving it! n/t

[s-cubed]

5. KICK

[NYC]

6. And again.

Let's hope this becomes evidence in a trial.

[Voltaire99]

7. The Dems damn well better fight this appointment

Spineless twerps! Stand for something!