MAJOR new ACLU document release tonight...

[rawstory]

Teaser up now at http://rawstory.com -- More details coming in an hour or so -- can't really say much but you can imagine what kind of documents the ACLU tends to acquire from the Bush administration under duress...

U.S. Army documents show soldiers covered up abuse even after Abu Ghraib...Detainee coerced into dropping charges of abuse before release....Soldiers posed in mock executions of detainees.... More abuse revealed in Iraq, Afghanistan....

ACLU to release new documents acquired from Bush administration tonight: Developing...

[tridim]

1. I know Michael Savage made a "call to arms" for his listeners

to "take out" the ACLU last night. Maybe it has something to do with these new docs? We'll see.

[realisticphish]

2. no one can take us out

we have friends everywhere bwa ha ha ha haaaa!

the ACLU's comin ta getcha!

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Thank God for the ACLU

I can't wait to see what this is.

[charlie]

8. Call Rush Limbaugh

Let the alpha rightwing shithead handle Savage.

31 May 2004 - In an interview with Time magazine, Rush Limbaugh declares himself a longtime fan of the ACLU after they filed an amicus brief on his behalf in his prescription drug case: "In a situation like this, I think it's safe to say I welcome its support, and I don't find it hypocritical at all, because I am not anti-ACLU. If the ACLU wants to go after, say, nativity scenes or this sort of thing, I may take issue, but there are other areas where I've supported things it has done."

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/pundits/rush-limbaugh/

[burythehatchet]

17. Hey Wiener - I AM THE ACLU!! - BRING IT

[Syncronaut Seven]

18. "take out" the ACLU?

isn't that a terrorist threat? Hey Michael! Luv ya! Your going to "wow" them at Nuremburg. Can hardly wait! BTW, You a whore too?

[Auntie Bush]

22. self deleted

[tridim]

23. I saw it on FR as I was laughing at their Hannity thread

"Michael Savage just made a call to arms! TAKE DOWN THE ACLU"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344932/posts

[Old and In the Way]

25. American Civil Liberties Union

Which one of those words does the Weiner man have a problem with? Why do these people hate America so much?

[Scooter24]

3. It makes

me proud to be a card-carrying member :)

[Wilms]

4. The Raw Story headline now reads...

ACLU to release new documents acquired from Bush administration tonight:

Developing...

U.S. Army documents show soldiers covered up abuse even after Abu Ghraib...

Detainee coerced into dropping charges of abuse before release....

Soldiers posed in mock executions of detainees....

More abuse revealed in Iraq, Afghanistan....



But no story yet.

[tridim]

5. Gee.. That's just lovely

But not surprising. I wonder if Gonzalez is mentioned again?

[KlumHeidi652]

6. None of that is new,

there's got to be alot more!

[Wilms]

7. I'm afraid to imagine. This admin really lowered us into the gutter.

Or just exposed us as already being there.

[K-W]

14. The point isnt that it is new. The point is the ACLU having documentation

[drummer55]

13. and mcain voted for him. unreal.

btw if your intersted in senator "they have dirt on me" mccain own words on what he expierenced for 5 years as a torture victim at guantanoma...er vietnam here ya go.

http://www.graftongop.org/mccain051473.html

[KoKo]

9. How did ACLU get Bush Admin to release this...They don't release anything

but claim it's all "Classified." :shrug: I can't believe they really got stuff through a FOIA request. It must have come "over the transom."
:shrug: The most secretive P-Residency in history isn't going to release anything with a whiff of news that would call them into question.

[Roland99]

10. Maybe it slipped thru the cracks between Ashcroft and Gonzales?

[FreedomAngel82]

12. They must've had something

on him and his administration? :shrug:

[K-W]

15. The ACLU has alot of legal clout and resources.

And great lawyers.

[Bluebear]

16. It's up..............

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=95

U.S. Soldiers Posed in Photos of Mock Executions of Detainees; More Cases of Abuse Revealed in Newly Released Documents

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE
February 18, 2005, 12:01 AM

NEW YORK–The American Civil Liberties Union today released files obtained from the Army revealing previously undisclosed allegations of abuse by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the documents are reports that a detainee who was beaten and seriously injured was forced to drop his claims in order to be released from custody.

“The torture of detainees is too widespread and systemic to be dismissed as the rogue actions of a few misguided individuals,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. “The American public deserves to know which high-level government officials are ultimately responsible for the torture conducted in our name.”

The release of these documents follows a federal court order that directed the Defense Department and other government agencies to comply with a year-old request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filed by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace. The New York Civil Liberties Union is co-counsel in the case.

In one file released today, an Iraqi detainee claimed that Americans in civilian clothing beat him in the head and stomach, dislocated his arms, “stepped on nose until it ,” stuck an unloaded pistol in his mouth and fired the trigger, choked him with a rope and beat his leg with a baseball bat. Medical reports corroborated the detainee’s account, stating that the detainee had a broken nose, fractured leg, and scars on his stomach. In addition, soldiers confirmed that Task Force 20 interrogators wearing civilian clothing had interrogated the detainee. However, after initially reporting the abuse, the detainee said that he was forced by an American soldier to sign a statement denouncing the claims or else be kept in detention indefinitely. He agreed.

[Disturbed]

19. Most of the Amerikan public doesn't care about

this issue. It will pop down the memory hole in a few minutes. Yeah, it suck and the ACLU should keep forcing the Govt. to release documents but it won't change anything politicaly.

[Roland99]

21. This should trump Propagannon for a few days

but both stories have legs that will run for days/weeks.

[JerseygirlCT]

20. Keeping this kicked

Will someone speak up in Congress now? Loudly?

[Roland99]

24. Nominated for Homepage!

[mordarlar]

26. kick

[Melissa G]

27. kick

[CTyankee]

28. Released on Friday night?

Isn't that when this admin. releases stuff that they know is damaging to them but will go nowhere because nobody is paying attention? Great. Release it and let it die over the weekend.

[Bluebear]

29. One more kick just for you :)