Torture COVER-UP!!!

[earthside]

Look at the pattern of news stories ... There is clearly a major league COVER-UP going on at the White House and the Pentagon!

This morning on my web site ( www.earthside.com ), I post the following links to news reports:

3 Witnesses at Iraq Abuse Hearing Refused to Testify
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-prison19may19.story

U.S. Military Vows to Keep Afghan Jails Secret
Reuters
http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5191242

Brutal interrogation in Iraq -Five detainees' deaths probed
Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0%2C1413%2C36~11676~2157003%2C00.html

Officer Says Army Tried to Curb Red Cross Visits to Prison in Iraq
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/politics/19ABUS.html?ex=1085941111&ei=1&en=ae1f59e2d337c41e

‘Definitely a Cover-Up’ - Former Abu Ghraib Intel Staffer Says Army Concealed Involvement in Abuse Scandal
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/abu_ghraib_cover_up_040518-1.html

It reminds me so much of how Watergate started. Liddy and his pals were going to keep their mouths shut until Judge John J. Sirica put the screws to the rest of the burglers. This is by far more serious.

Americans should be outraged by what the Bush regime is doing to put a tight lid on how high up approval for the torture of Iraqis and Afghans went.

And why hasn't the big story by the Denver Post received more attention from the corporate media? (I guess I just answered my own question) ... there is now evidence of actual deaths from torture!

I tell ya ... we are in big trouble as a country if we let this kind of deadly scandal go whimpering away.

And so far, listening to the Senate hearings with the generals this morning, I'm not seeing anyone, Republican or Democrat, really go after these guys.

[FreakinDJ]

1. The sad part is this is just an attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq

They have spun the reasons to invade Iraq so many times. I am sure the demands for credible information from interrogations came all the way from the top.

We know from Richard Clark's book they went in on a hunch and Tenet's assumption it was a "Slam dunk" they would find the WMDs to justify the action