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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Ann " Vixen of Venom " Coulter and The Republican Show Of Ignorance

    We all know by now about the Ann Coulter speech in which she referred to John Edwards as a 'faggot' more or less proving that Ann Coulter is as ignorant as she looks.

   Yet Coulter and the rest of the Republican pundits still insist that this group is loaded up with Christians and that they hold dear to the " right " values as God would have them to do.

   If this is going to be the doctrine of the religious right and the rest of their supporters ( Bush Department of Constitutional Shredding,Inc. ) then I would rather become an atheist. At least the atheist group are straight up on where they stand and they aren't out trying to pass themselves off as something that they are not.

   It seems that Mr. A. Coulter now backs Mitt Romney as the next presidential candidate for the Repugnican party because, as Coulter put it," He tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy who hoodwinks the voters so easily."

   Ann Coulter is basically saying that the voters in this country are somewhat stupid and gullible.

   John McCain and Romney himself attacked the speech but Romney is still being nice with the " Vixen of Venom "  instead of putting her in a locked closet.

   But this is all show for their poor, confused, uneducated followers in order to get a spark out of them as the Repugnicans have nothing else to talk about that would have any truth to it.

 

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