New - BBC VIDEO: Former guard Details Guantanamo 'torture'

[kpete]

Gitmo Guard Details Torture
VIDEO: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7821569.stm
By Scott Horton

On the BBC last night, Chris Arendt, a former military guard at one of the Guantánamo camps, detailed the routine torture of prisoners that occured there, including the “Frequent Flyer” program designed to prevent prisoners from sleeping for periods of up to thirty days. The practices he identifies are not disputed by the Bush Administration, although the label he affixes to them–“torture”—is. These practices are described as “torture” by the United States when done by other governments, but when they’re carried out by the United States they’re an “authorized human intelligence gathering technique.” They’re also a prosecutable felony.

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A former guard at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has spoken in his first television interview about the brutality he witnessed to inmates.

Chris Arendt told the BBC what he saw amounted to ''torture'' and that some of his fellow guards were so violent as to be ''psychotic.''

Daniel Sandford reports.

VIDEO: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7821569.stm

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004168

[Jack Rabbit]

1. I think we have found a witness in the war crimes trial against Bush, Cheneym et al.

This is must see TV.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

Time to stop pretending America...

[pleah]

3. K&R

[derby378]

4. Dianne Feinstein, step the fuck back

We have a witness for the prosecution. Can't have the Senator from California throwing a monkey wrench into any possible trials, now, can we?

[Mnemosyne]

5. More, more! Can barely wait for the 21st! KnR! n/t