A new report documenting the torture of more than two-dozen former prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2008 comes several months after a bipartisan Congressional committee linked the murder of two detainees held at the same prison facility to policies enacted by George W. Bush and ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The story fills in more details on torture that led to murders in Afghanistan under the directives of the Bush administrations. The Obama efforts to cover up the war crimes of the Bush era call for such reporting.
In February, the American Civil Liberties Union obtained, under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, two pages from the Church report that had been classified for the past five years. Those documents included details of two detainee deaths at Bagram in December 2002 believed to be Dilawar and Habibullah, but those pages did not identify the detainees who were killed by name. The ACLU said they believed the two pages were withheld by the Bush administration to cover-up evidence of war crimes.
Two days before Habibullah was killed, Rumsfeld signed the action memo presented to him by Haynes.
I have watched "Taxi to the Dark Side." It is a tale of disgrace to our nation. The perpetrators were at the highest levels and should be prosecuted.