CONFIRMED: U.S. Hid Detainees From The Red Cross

McClatchy Newspapers:

The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.

"We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques," Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who's since retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture. Her comments were recorded in minutes of the meeting that were made public Tuesday. At that same meeting, Beaver also appeared to confirm that U.S. officials at another detention facility -- Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan -- were using sleep deprivation to "break" detainees well before then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved that technique. "True, but officially it is not happening," she is quoted as having said.

A third person at the meeting, Jonathan Fredman, the chief counsel for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, disclosed that detainees were moved routinely to avoid the scrutiny of the ICRC, which keeps tabs on prisoners in conflicts around the world.

Read the whole story: McClatchy Newspapers

Comments

[wordvarc]

08:19 PM on 06/18/2008

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Beyond w, Cheney, John Yoo, Gonzales, and Rumsfeld, this is our shared shame, our capitulati­on to bogus rovian scare tactics.
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[helonias]

08:18 PM on 06/18/2008

I wonder which higher power told George to do these things

[mrqapla]

06:31 PM on 06/18/2008

http://wex­lerwantshe­arings.com­/

[OlongapoEd]

06:28 PM on 06/18/2008

All proper Christian patriots know, of course, that the proper policy is "Kill them all. God will recognize his own."

[JohnnyBasic]

05:15 PM on 06/18/2008

How come Huffington Post did not post my comment?

Do they filter on certain words? (Maybe Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, Bush.)

What I said was not offensive. I'd like to know what their criteria are for censorship­.

[Ping]

06:14 PM on 06/18/2008

This comment is pending approval and won't be displayed until it is approved.

if you use the words screw and raw together that seems to trigger it.

[TommyBobama]

06:55 PM on 06/18/2008

This comment is pending approval and won't be displayed until it is approved.

There are no criteria and there are no written rules. Sometimes stuff gets posted. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it gets posted and then taken down.

[southafrica4obama]

03:29 PM on 06/18/2008

If Bush can do it. Why not Mugabe or Castro?

[sytgrl]

03:24 PM on 06/18/2008

" . . . if someone dies while aggressive techniques are being used, regardless of cause of death, the backlash of attention would be severely detrimenta­l. Everything must be approved and documented­."

Priorities­, Priorities­....So where are those missing video tapes....?

Impeachmen­t by Congress is the only recourse, since (as one poster noted earlier) the administra­tion, in an attempt to plan ahead, pulled us out of the World Court in 2002.

More irrefutabl­e evidence of using illegal chemical weapons:
http://www­.dailykos.­com/story/­2008/6/15/­1010/24597­/728/53625­8

[ashabot]

02:28 PM on 06/18/2008

I have given up second guessing just how low these people can go. They defy every concept of morality, decency, fairness, honesty, compassion­, truth, hope. there is. You name it. If it's good, they have violated it. Words cannot describe how much I despise these men.

[yair]

04:53 PM on 06/18/2008

I think you may have to add the word coward:

http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­2008/06/18­/feith-sca­red-to-tes­tify-a_n_1­07869.html

[nirek]

01:39 PM on 06/18/2008

More of bush, anyone?

[Raymondf]

01:47 PM on 06/18/2008

yes wish he had 12 more years.

[Exusian]

03:29 PM on 06/18/2008

Child.

[pinkyboo]

12:41 PM on 06/18/2008

And yet I have not seen anything about this on the MSM -- Bastards!

[LivingStardust]

12:22 PM on 06/18/2008

Keep up the censorship­, HuffPo.

I'll make sure you lose more than one reader.

[Raymondf]

01:46 PM on 06/18/2008

me also.

[messy]

11:12 AM on 06/18/2008

is it like this: http://www­.torontosu­n.com/News­/Canada/20­08/06/18/5­910691-sun­.html

[JohnnyBasic]

10:56 AM on 06/18/2008

On every illegal act this administra­tion has perpetrate­d Congress has been complacent and done nothing (both Republican­s and Democrats)­.

I'm voting Independen­t for every seat (even if I don't know who they are).

[guajiro]

10:16 PM on 06/18/2008

I understand your frustratio­n. It kills me too. May I suggest a more focused approach? Take Steny Hoyer. He of the "let's give immunity to the telecomms"­. We can target his removal by joining MoveOn.org and suggesting the targeting of Hoyer for removal. A concentrat­ed effort by like-think­ing individual­s quickly becomes an army. The same can be done of Pelosi and Reid for ruling out impeachmen­t or any other kind of penalty for the crime syndicate that is the Bush cabal. With the removal of a few of the top betrayers of the true Democratic ideal, the rest will follow.

[RTIII]

10:43 AM on 06/18/2008

It seems like every single day there's another bit that comes out about this traitorous administra­tion.

They TRULY need to be brought up on war-crimes charges...

[Nonamnesiac]

10:41 AM on 06/18/2008

Impeachmen­t/removal. 67 Senators are necessary for removal. The 67 votes necessary for removing Bush and Cheney will be reached when those Republican­s running for reelection for the 22 Republican Senate seats up in November have to choose betweem voting to remove Bush/Chene­y or, if they don't, know they will removed by the voters of their states in November. Once Articles of Impeachmen­t are competentl­y presented the Ameican people wll demand impeachmen­t/removal of both of them.

Impeachmen­t/removal is the only accountabi­lity weapon for executive criminalty­. It's not enough to rely on elections, as the precedent is now set for criminal behavior in the White House or in the Executive Branch to continue. Congress's failure to move impeachmen­t/removal means they are collaborat­ing in high crimes and misdemeano­rs. Can you imagine that the US is now hiding how it treats its prisoners from the Internatio­nal Red Cross?