Disappearing Prisoners, dead? alive? Where is the media? Anybody care?

[G_j]

http://www.villagevoice.com/print/issues/0427/hentoff.php


Disappearing Prisoners
Are they dead? Are they alive? Where is the media? Does alive? Where is the media? Does anybody out there care? (**besides us that is)

July 2nd, 2004 5:40 PM



In a front-page article December 26, 2002, The Washington Post revealed that prisoners at a CIA interrogation center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan were being subjected to abuses that veered on torture:

"The picture that emerges is of a brass-knuckled quest for information . . . in which the traditional lines between right and wrong, legal and inhumane, are evolving and blurred."

The media largely ignored the story, with the notable exceptions of The Economist and the indispensable Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker.

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What was happening at Bagram Air Base soon disappeared from the news, but the revelations of our repellent abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib interrogation cells, where Saddam Hussein's torturers had previously operated, raised widespread questions about American adherence to the Geneva Conventions and other international human rights standards. The first whistle-blower was a soldier, specialist Joseph Darby: "I didn't want to see any more prisoners being abused, because I knew it was wrong."

However, in the rush of reports, the CIA and its then leader, George Tenet, were hardly mentioned. But a startling probe on ABC's Nightline on May 13, 2004, "The Disappeared," focused on super-secret CIA interrogation operations overseas, about which ABC News' Chris Bury said:

"We don't know where they are being held. We don't know how many of them there are. We don't know what the rules are."

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[porphyrian]

1. Yes. - n/t

[Redleg]

2. Haven't you heard? Iraq is no longer our problem now that it is sovereign

Let freedom reign. (I hope your sarcasm detector is turned on).

[cthrumatrix]

3. People are pissed at the media and this admins cover-ups...

angry voters = puppetman exit

[G_j]

4. those that know enough are

too many are still clueless

[G_j]

5. kick

[G_j]

6. evening kick