US Military Tried Blocking Reports Of Detainee Deaths and Torture

     I have been reading an article online which will not come out in print until March of this year.

   This story deals with two reporters ,Kevin Sack and Craig Pyes, who have been investigating the abuse and deaths of detainees at Gardez just south of Kabul at the facility in Afghanistan and the cover-up of these actions by the United States military and the United States government.

    After you read this story, you will no doubt understand why the " Bush Department of Constitutional Shredding,Inc. " put in place the new rules of war concerning the rights of prisoners, which you know they no longer have.

   The story speaks of the reporters being blocked from attempts to gather information which was not classified and from being lied to not only by the service members at the prison, but by almost the entire chain of command.

            Nieman Watchdog

But an even greater obstacle was how we would report on Special Forces activities at remote firebases, where most of the prisoners sent from Afghanistan to the prison facility at Guantanamo were first captured and held. The bases are highly classified and have not only avoided scrutiny from journalists and the public, but are opaque to congressional staffers with security clearances, to the military’s own investigators and, sometimes, even to the Special Forces Command itself. The Red Cross does not have access to these outposts, and even the names of the soldiers are treated like state secrets. Several times, irate Green Berets responded to our inquiries with: “How did you get my name? It’s classified.

   Click here to read the entire article.

 

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