Slate on ACLU FOIA: The government still isn't "coming clean"

[Carolab]

FOIA Eyes Only
The latest torture documents show the government still isn't coming clean.
By Eric Umansky
Posted Friday, Dec. 31, 2004, at 9:13 AM PT


Over the past month, the biggest scoops in the news business have come from ... an organization that's not in the news business. Using the Freedom of Information Act, the American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered thousands of government documents detailing torture of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. One FBI memo about Gitmo cited "strangulation, beatings, placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees' ear openings, and unauthorized interrogations." It also repeatedly referred to a "cover-up."

The White House has long insisted that detainee abuses, first detailed at Abu Ghraib, were isolated, unrelated to interrogations, and certainly not happening at Gitmo. While the documents don't prove that torture was official policy, they do, as an acerbic Washington Post editorial put it, "establish beyond any doubt that every part of this cover story is false."

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[SpiralHawk]

1. Widespread torture

The fish rots from the head on down. Bush and BushCo are responsible. Depend on it.