Time for Bush to Talk About Torture?

[struggle4progress]

<snip> Unpunished Brutality

R. Jeffrey Smith and Josh White write in The Washington Post about newly released Army documents chronicling many more alleged acts of brutality and abuse of Iraqis at the hands of military personnel, none of which resulted in criminal charges.

"The newly released reports detail allegations similar to those that surrounded the documented abuse at Abu Ghraib -- such as beatings with rifle butts, prolonged hooding, sodomy, electric shocks, stressful shackling, and the repeated withholding of clothing and food -- but they also encompass alleged offenses at military prisons and checkpoints elsewhere in Iraq."

Is it possible the White House didn't know? No, apparently that's not it. Somebody over there at least knew about at least one of these newly disclosed cases. <snip>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35221-2005Jan25.html

[Jack Rabbit]

1. It's not torture unless it's the rack or the iron maiden

These are aggressive interrogation methods. See?