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

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.

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[wordvarc]

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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]

I wonder which higher power told George to do these things

[mrqapla]

http://wexlerwantshearings.com/

[OlongapoEd]

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

[JohnnyBasic]

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.

[guajiro]

Basically, when Huffpo edited/screened certain comments in the past, what they didn't know was that by doing so they brought on certain legal obligations unto themselves. Now they have to do it to avoid harmful litigation. That they erase certain comments willy-nilly is kind of funny in that I think it demonstrates the total lack of discipline in adhereing to any particular kind of editing standards. They're editors are kind of like the fly-by-night, $5 dollar hooker with too much make-up and clothes that fit a pre-teen.
"Prior to the act, at least one Internet service provider had been held liable as a publisher because the provider assumed a publisher-like role by screening and editing harmful material. The California Supreme Court said Congress granted Internet providers immunity in the hope the industry would self-regulate and purge the Internet of at least some offensive material."
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2006/1121-lib-hostin.html

[TommyBobama]

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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.

[Ping]

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

[southafrica4obama]

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

[sytgrl]

" . . . 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]

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]

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]

More of bush, anyone?

[Raymondf]

yes wish he had 12 more years.

[Exusian]

Child.

[pinkyboo]

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

[LivingStardust]

Keep up the censorship, HuffPo.

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

[Raymondf]

me also.

[messy]

is it like this: http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/18/5910691-sun.html

[JohnnyBasic]

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]

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]

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]

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?