Rumsfeld Directed Torture Via Video-conference?

[kpete]

By PETE YOST

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A military judge Tuesday allowed defense lawyers to call a general to testify at a court martial in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, but the judge barred the defense from summoning Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
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At a pretrial hearing in the case of Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona, a defense lawyer said Rumsfeld personally dispatched Miller to Abu Ghraib to review interrogation procedures as the U.S. military sought better intelligence from prisoners amid a growing insurgency in Iraq.

The lawyer, Harvey Volzer, said Rumsfeld took a personal interest in individual interrogations of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, including the ones in which Cardona, a dog handler, is implicated.

The secretary of defense had video teleconferences with civilian contractors who were conducting questioning of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Volzer added.

One of the prosecutors, Maj. Christopher Graveline, said Volzer is making ``accusation after accusation after accusation'' about the role of military higher-ups and asked, ``Where is the evidence?''

``I just told you,'' snapped Volzer, a civilian lawyer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5763993,00.html
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/19/132428/830

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Dr. Evil or the dictator from "V for Vendetta"

And soon, a "teleconferencing screen" in every home and in every public space, just as in "1984"

:scared:

[Botany]

2. remember bush getting the giggles when asked about ........

..... the Private contractors and torture?

[cliss]

3. Or how about the one

where Rumsfailed was asked about the prison scandal. "All the perpetrators have been sentenced", he said.

ALL BUT ONE.

[Jacobin]

4. So he could, um, 'take care of himself' in his trenchcoat

"Okay, now ask him where the damned WMD's are.......okay, beat him some more, take his clothes off, put the dogs on him,.....okay, now, have a naked chick rub her tits on him...oh oh oh oh OH OH OH OH.....ahhhh....never mind. Call you later"

[BiggJawn]

5. "Stretch it WIDER! Shine that light up there..."

"Move your hand, I'm looking for WMD's...Oh, you feedin' them corn again?"

[DianaForRussFeingold]

6. Video-conference? Hmmm....I wonder if Bush 'The Decider' knew

Unreal...Beam me up Scotty.:crazy: