Froomkin: Establishing The Connection Between The Bush Administration and Abu Ghraib
By Logan Murphy Friday May 22, 2009 2:00pm
As former Vice President Dick Cheney continues his feckless crusade to save his legacy and once again mislead the world about the war crimes he was party to, new revelations about those crimes are beginning to surface.
Denying that White House policy was directly responsible for the vile abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib has been the central goal of a five-year disinformation campaign by Bush officials. 'Torture Team' author Philippe Sands argues that newly-disclosed records show how blatantly Bush officials were willing to lie in order to lead reporters away from the truth. Eighth in a series of articles calling attention to the things we still need to know about torture and other abuses committed by the Bush administration after 9/11.
Soon after the photos of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib went public, Bush administration officials contrived a high-stakes disinformation campaign to prevent the American people from linking the White House to the vile, sadistic treatment of detainees in that Iraqi prison. They repeatedly insisted that the abuses were just the work of a few “bad apples.” They scoffed at the notion that their orders circumventing historic limits on interrogation were remotely responsible.
Five years later, they’re still at it, with former vice president Dick Cheney waging a clever campaign that would have the debate over government-sanctioned torture turn on what techniques were employed at the CIA’s secret prison -- and whether they “worked.”...
But “Torture Team” author Philippe Sands points out that a vivid illustration of the disinformation campaign – showing just how far officials were willing to mislead and lie in their desperate attempt to avoid culpability for Abu Ghraib – can now be found by comparing one of the newly-released Justice Department memos with statements made by then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales in June 2004. Read on...
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Duh, who doesn't know that Dickhead and Dumbya lied us into this hyped up war.
I still hear bs about how Saddam was a "bad" man etc.
"Bad" as in he was a "bad mutha-f....."?
Oooh, shut my mouth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAa5rP64YbQ
That Rummy went to Iraq and pow-wowed with him and shook his hand and then private U.S. corporations like Honeywell sold Saddam the necessary parts he needed to concoct what is referred to as "the poor man's nuclear weapon".
Lucky for our troops that Saddam didn't decide to use them in the first Gulf War. Maybe he and his gang hadn't quite figured out how to put all the parts together...
No thanks to Rummy and Honeywell.
One day America and Americans might wake up to the endless lies. It seems it's still a long way off.
The first step is to realize you've been bad and there is a problem. Then you can do the other 11 steps.
and....?
Seems like the story ended rather abruptly...
Here's the missing link:
Establishing the connection between the Bush White House and Abu Ghraib
The link has been added. I appreciate the help.
Thank you mountainman23
From an article in Time -
"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the America he had authorized on Feb. 7, 2002, when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention — the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime — did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. That signature led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.
On my damn birthday...
The average American citizen who lies to or misleads investigators, or otherwise tries to cover up possible crimes, gets prosecuted -- except this bunch. Go figure.
Its not a crime if a CONSERVATIVE republican does it.
great unwashed masses have been taught to think that there is one country widely considers itself the best on the planet. Not quite the master race, but nevertheless the best and bravest and so on. Certainly better than camel jockeys, sand ******s, ragheads and slopeheads and everyone else on the planet. It is ok to spy on everyone else in the world, and kidnap people from other countries, and overthrow democratically elected governments, and teach torture techniques to dictators, and pretty well do just about anything in the supposed national interest. Both parties have acted the same, just to different degrees. If there is a majority national psyche, it is that of a narcissist with sociopathic tendencies.
If you have the nicest clothes, whitest teeth, and niftiest toys, you must be best. Right? Better than everyone else. Imagine being so poor, you can't afford designer clothes. What losers. Must exterminate.
If they get away with this one, next Halliburton will get no-bid contracts for gas chambers and crematoriums. Just watch.
It's probably been the plan all along, but they're doing it in 'baby steps'.
The Naziafacation of America continues.
Nation duped by a pocket of depraved individuals at the top.
That's what this turned out to be.
Despicable acts of high crimes and misdemeanors by the highest public servants in the land.
Waiting for the day we see photos of Abu Ghraib style abuse at other sites. That should dispell the notion that these were the actions of out of control underlings. We need a whistleblower.
That is what the new pics were supposed to be of, not Abu Ghraib but other prisons. Agree or disagree with not releasing them, but they would have blown that big lie out of the water.
Yeah but in order to get them we need whistleblower protections!
Bunny Greenhouse Retaliated Against After Testifying To Congress
"I did not expect that within hours of my testimony I would be subject to additional retaliation. At 6:23 p.m. I was forwarded an email written by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chief of Staff stating that from now on, all testimony before Congress must be pre-approved by the Army Corps and that all oral testimony must conform to the approved written testimony."
if it were to come to light, that the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon et al. were deliberately orchestrated by the Bush Administration?
I'm not saying it's true, or I believe it, but I would not be surprised anymore. These people have shown they are capable of anything now.
great to see we still have real investigative reporters, and not the run of the mill crap they pass off. We need more! As far as the documentation we new this was happening, at least I did back then, couldn't prove it and still bush got voted in again.
Spare me the rhetoric about who he was running against because anyone would have been better, no one cared or not enough people.
My sister was so happy when bush won she really didn't understand and thought I was overreacting when I was crying. She still thinks I'm a conspiracy nut. But everything I said is starting to come out and whats funny is she and everyone else of that mindset that I talked to cant recall what I said.
Sorry needed to rant!
The truth is too much for your sister and thos people of like mindset. Blinded by their ideology
no one likes to be proven wrong....and when your whole ideology comes crashing down before you, it's pretty devastating. It's akin to having your entire religion debunked. Some people would rather die, and take others out with them than be shown to be fools that have been used.
The danger of ideologues is they think they have the answers already, beforehand, then they make/use/corrupt "intelligence" to prove their theories.
They are, in fact, only theories.
My in-laws just stare off into space.
You can see their hard drive is crashing by the twitching they do. But, being the wingnuts they are, after they have processed and deleted any logic files, they reboot by invoking Bill Clinton's name.
I love that i only wish we were talking about a blow job... Another huge thing this is almost like attacking there religion, which they are very touchy about.
Luckily I know I can win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFZzrevpug
true and i guess I misspoke when they stole the election.
But thats past. Im glad its all comming out now.
Could you possibly imagine having those three stooges running your country?
Oh wait, holy shit!
Hahahahagh! Could you imagine if those three guys at the top, take a look, could be running the country? Hahahahagagarghghh!
little nicky with his demon brothers, na bush could never fill sandlers shoes
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So Creationism is Logan Murphy's fault?
What is the real belief in creationism? what does it get the believer?
Why are they hung up on the world being six thousand years old? Do we all have to believe in Santa to appreciate Christmas?
It's religious.
With no Adam and Eve, there's no Fall, therefore no Original Sin to be saved from by Jesus.
Otherwise, they might have to study his teachings, but only if they can prove he existed, which they cannot, hence the need for faith.
Well they can add that newly found missing link to their list of denials. the latest creature is creepy because it has very opposed thumbs and other Eire features. I don't think that will be the only missing link either.
Well, that about wraps it up for God.
He's Irish?
Only a drunken Irishman could come up with the GOP and it's followers.
Onomatopoeia of an elephant stepping in it's own dung.
Thank goodness onomatopoiea is mostly phonetic or I'd never be able to spell it.
What's taking so long?
And he's looking over his shoulder every where he goes.
That's my guess.
Only his lawyer must be a total idiot. Any good lawyer tells his client to keep his mouth shut.
God?
http://markkelly.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/...
Or
http://definitionofinsanity.files.wordpress.c...
?
Yes, let's painstakingly, tirelessly connect the dots and assemble the case so Obama can say he doesn't want to pursue it.
Three bullets and we're done. Sorry, but I'm past caring about their fucked up lives.
I guess Cheney is Moe, Bush is Larry and that would make Gonzo Shemp.
For those of you who are old enough to know the Three Stooges.
I always liked Curly better. Never missed 'em on Saturday morning; me and my kid brother.
I wish these 3 cretens had the intestinal fortitude that the former president of South Korea so recently demonstrated...
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