ARMY WHITEWASHES REPORT ON MAJOR GENERAL LINKED TO TORTURE:

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http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=1331575&ct=2249601

HUMAN RIGHTS -- ARMY WHITEWASHES REPORT ON MAJOR GENERAL LINKED TO TORTURE: In May 2004, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a "central player in the detainee abuse scandals" at both Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, testified under oath to the Senate Armed Services Committee that he had "no direct discussions" with Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone regarding a fact-finding mission he had made to Abu Ghraib prison. Three months later, in a recorded statement to attorneys, Miller admitted giving "a briefing on his visit and his subsequent recommendations" to "five senior Pentagon officials, including Cambone." According to a new report by Salon, an Army inspector general's investigation into these seemingly contradictory statements used "a hair-splitting distinction between a small group 'briefing' and 'direct discussions' to exonerate ...of allegations that he lied to Congress." Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John Warner (R-VA) recently joined "to block Miller's retirement after he took the unusual step of invoking his right to avoid self-incrimination in legal proceedings against Abu Ghraib soldiers." Only relatively low-ranking military officials have been punished despite the fact that aggressive detainee interrogation policies started at the top.

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1. And So America as a Whole Sinks Lower

noting has improved since Bush has come into office. It just gets worse by the day, because Bush has no REAL pride.

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2. Ministry of Truth ("1984")

The Party controls the present. The Party will control the future. There is no past. History is relegated to the Memory Hole. As soon as the present becomes the past, it is scrubbed.