Donald Rumsfeld... may be responsible for giving actual illegal orders

[5X]

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Apparently, however, Donald Rumsfeld and other civilian political appointees may be guilty of much, much more than creating a criminal command environment. They may be responsible for giving actual illegal orders. They may have given illegal orders calling for torture itself. NBC News reports today that a "top-secret site near Baghdad's airport" is a "battlefield interrogation facility known as the 'BIF'." Writes NBC's Campbell Brown:



According to two top U.S. government sources, it is the scene of the most egregious violations of the Geneva Conventions in all of Iraq’s prisons. A place where the normal rules of interrogation don’t apply, Delta Force’s BIF only holds Iraqi insurgents and suspected terrorists — but not the most wanted among Saddam’s lieutenants pictured on the deck of cards.


According to senior government officials, prisoners at the BIF are "hooded from the moment they are captured. They are kept in tiny dark cells. And in the BIF's six interrogation rooms, Delta Force soldiers routinely drug prisoners, hold a prisoner under water until he thinks he's drowning, or smother them almost to suffocation."

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http://cgi.warblogging.com/

Why the streets aren't filled with protestors, I don't know.
We should be marching on DC.

[w13rd0]

1. So, just WHERE does this crew...

...draw the line? Torturing a US citizen? Assassination? Knowing murder of innocents? How many? 1? 10? 790? 3000?

seriously...OPEN THE GATES TO HELL!

[Webster Green]

2. Why aren't the streets filled with protestors?....Good Question!

There are demonstrations scheduled for June 5th:
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition urgently calls on people to join the mass mobilization on June 5 and to support the emergency protest actions throughout the United States in the coming days in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Thousands of people will be demonstrating on June 5 in Washington, DC, in San Francisco at 11 am at UN Plaza, and Los Angeles. This mass mobilization is an urgent response by the people of the United States to the criminal actions of the Bush administration in Iraq and Palestine.

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
www.ANSWERcoalition.org
[e-mail]
Washington 202-544-3389
New York 212-633-6646
Los Angeles 323-464-1636
San Francisco 415-821-6545

And......Welcome to DU, you long-haired-hippy-radical-commie-pinko-freak!:hi:

[symbolman]

3. I hope that stands for

"Bush Is F*cked"

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. I bet the final authorization came from the Big Dick and...

...the Fratboy Fuhrer.

[Straight Shooter]

5. Well, if that ain't one big rebuttal to Inhofe's screaming tirade

Apparently the insurgents and terrorists that he thinks deserve this kind of torture are at BIF, not Abu Ghraib.

(bush is f*cked, that's funny!)