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This is how military intelligence wants it done

article collage by capt wardrobe | 25.06.2004 14:27



'This is how military intelligence wants it done'

Abuse may have been 'order'
 http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1520513,00.html



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Programming techniques
Cheney & Rumsfeld have previous history...


Secret documents have revealed US Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld are "linked to the murder" of a senior CIA scientist. Frank Olson, who was a key member of the CIA's secret brainwashing programme MK-ULTRA, was sent plunging from a New York hotel window after he had threatened to reveal the CIA involvement in "terminal experiments" in post-war Germany.

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Diego Garcia is a British territory mostly populated by the US military, the British colony that’s been colonised by the Americans. Normally the island is home to about 1,700 military personnel and 1,500 civilian contractors. But only about 50 troops are British. The island is used jointly by the Navy and the Air Force. Though the Navy contingent is larger, the Air Force does the flying.
Global security
 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/diego-garcia.htm


The interrogation techniques used on Diego Garcia are contained in a secret CIA manual on coercive questioning. It contains sections headed "Threats and Fear", "Pain", "Narcosis" and "Heightened Suggestibility and Hypnosis". The presence of the prisoners on Diego Garcia is so secret that a counter-terrorism official in Washington said President Bush "had informed the CIA he did not want to know where they were". The American interrogators have unfettered access to prisoners kept on board prison ships in the island's deep-water harbours. They are brought ashore for questioning in a custom-built concrete cell-block near the island's air field. From there, US Air Force B52s took off to bomb Afghanistan and then Iraq.
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Secret detention centers

The United States is holding terrorism suspects in more than two dozen detention centers worldwide and about half of these operate in total secrecy, said a human rights report released on Thursday.

Human Rights First, formerly known as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, said in a report that secrecy surrounding these facilities made "inappropriate detention and abuse not only likely but inevitable."

"The abuses at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib cannot be addressed in isolation," said Deborah Pearlstein, director of the group's U.S. Law and Security program, referring to the U.S. Naval base prison in Cuba and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq where abuses are being investigated.

"This is all about secrecy, accountability and the law," Pearlstein told a news conference.

The report coincided with news that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered military officials to hold a suspect in a prison near Baghdad without telling the Red Cross. Pearlstein said this would be a violation of the Geneva Conventions and Defense Department directives.

She said thousands of security detainees were being held by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as locations elsewhere which the military refused to disclose.

"The U.S. government is holding prisoners in a secret system of off-shore prisons beyond the reach of adequate supervision, accountability of law," said the report. Reuters via indymedia
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293604.html


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Leading human-rights advocates accused the Bush administration of making "a mockery of international human-rights law" after the disclosure of an internal government memo that claims President George W. Bush is not bound by laws and treaties banning the use of torture.

Revelation of the 56-page draft memo, which was prepared for Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in March of 2003, cites the President's "complete authority over the conduct of war" to justify overriding a range of domestic laws and international treaties including the Geneva Conventions, the international treaty against torture and U.S. federal laws that explicitly ban torture.

"We now know that at the highest levels of the Pentagon, there was a shocking interest in using torture and a misguided attempt to evade the criminal consequences of doing so," said Kenneth Roth, president of Human Rights Watch.

He noted that intent to engage in torture is a war crime."
Globe & Mail
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040610/TORTURE10/TPInternational/TopStories

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A leader who is above the law is a TYRANT


President Bush, as commander-in-chief, is not restricted by U.S. and international laws barring torture, Bush administration lawyers stated in a March 2003 memorandum.

The 56-page memo to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cited the president's "complete authority over the conduct of war," overriding international treaties such as a global treaty banning torture, the Geneva Conventions and a U.S. federal law against torture.

"In order to respect the president's inherent constitutional authority to manage a military campaign ... (the prohibition against torture) must be construed as inapplicable to interrogations undertaken pursuant to his commander-in-chief authority," stated the memo, obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.
Reuters
 http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=ff5e4990b4de6ee3
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Supreme Court Refuses to Order Cheney to Release Energy Papers

The Supreme Court handed a major political victory to the Bush administration today, ruling 7 to 2 that Vice President Dick Cheney is not obligated, at least for now, to release secret details of his energy task force.

The majority of the justices agreed with the administration's arguments that private deliberations among a president, vice president and their close advisers are indeed entitled to special treatment — arising from the constitutional principle known as executive privilege — although they said the administration must still prove the specifics of its case in the lower courts.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/politics/24CND-CHEN.html

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Above the law -


Rumsfeld tipped to replace jail abuse investigator

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to replace the two-star general investigating the prisoner abuse scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail with a more senior officer, The New York Times reports. Defence officials told the daily that General John Abizaid, commander of US forces in the Middle East, has asked for the change because army regulations prevent the investigator, General George Fay, from interviewing his superiors. Gen Fay has said he could not complete his investigation without interviewing the ground commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez. Lt Gen Sanchez has recused himself as the reviewing authority for Gen Fay's report. The daily says he has asked Gen Abizaid that a higher ranking officer be appointed to conduct and review the investigation.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1129343.htm
ABC

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DoJ Memo on Lawful Torture via Cryptome
 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/military_0604.pdf

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