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Hey look, it appears the CIA WAS pushing the torture at Abu Ghraib.
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Well, it looks like the worst of all worlds is finally coming out. Our own military officers are now testifying, under oath, that -yes- the torture at Abu Ghraib was initiated at much higher levels. So much for the "few bad apples" line
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Witnesses in the trial of a U.S. soldier charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib have told the court that the CIA sometimes directed abuse and orders were received from military command to toughen interrogations.
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Testifying in the court martial of Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick, who is charged with five accounts of abusing prisoners, Captain Donald Reese, a military police commander at Abu Ghraib, said the CIA was involved in abusing detainees.
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Taking the stand after Reese, Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Kramer, a military intelligence soldier, said he had received an email in August, before much of the abuse is believed to have occurred, demanding that interrogations be "toughened up".
"We were told we weren't getting the intelligence they expected. Therefore we must not be conducting enough interrogations to get the intelligence," Kramer told the court.
Kramer said the email, read out in court and admitted as evidence, had come from a captain in the U.S.-led command headquarters in Baghdad, and told him and others in similar positions to get interrogators to "take off the gloves".
So lets take a tally:
No WMD and no WMD projects under way.
Suppression of a CIA report that pretty much lays the blame on the Bush admin for letting its guard down to terrorism pre-911.
Prisoner torture was, in fact, directed behavior and not random acts of a few.
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and who was directing the CIA?
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And 'toughen up' the interrogations means to stack people in naked pyramids?
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Nemo me impune lacesset
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