The Word Not Spoken: Bagram

[unhappycamper]

The Word Not Spoken: Bagram
Harry Shearer
Actor, author, director, satirist, musician, radio host, playwright, multi-media artist
Posted: November 13, 2009 11:50 AM

When the Fox network staged a special Veterans' Day version of its NFL pregame show at Bagram AF Base last Sunday, two hours was apparently not long enough to mention one interesting fact about Bagram: It's the site of America's other Gitmo, a prison where detainees have been kept for years outside the purview of U.S. law, outside even the scope of the Supreme Court's habeas corpus decision on Gitmo detainees.

Interestingly, it was at Bagram that the only detainees (that we know of) to have died while in US custody were kept.

When Eric Holder held a press conference announcing the plans for trying several Gitmo detainees, he was peppered with questions from the Washington media about the trials, about security, about the closing of Gitmo. The word not spoken at that briefing: Bagram.

And, of course, the president's promise to close Gitmo within the year, much debated, said nothing about Bagram.

People can keep a secret when they want to...


Article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/the-word-not-spoken-bagra_b_356921.html

[Junkdrawer]

1. Perhaps if you posted "Carrie Prejean never talks about Bagram"...

People might have read this post...

[mmonk]

2. +1

[annabanana]

3. What we choose to forget is as important as what we

choose to remember.

[mmonk]

5. True, It is also what separates those that will not forget

with fellow members of our party as well. I did not vote to continue sweeping major items of concern under the rug nor continue any more lawless practices.

[Igel]

9. Weren't there deaths that

we know about at Abu Ghraib?

Nonetheless, I agree--the problem being that we often don't "choose" to forget information.

Even just looking at salience of a fact and how it fits in with prior knowledge doesn't get you where you need to go.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

Bagram doesn't get the coverage it so deserves.

[tekisui]

6. knr!~

[slipslidingaway]

7. knr nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. K&R

[slipslidingaway]

10. kick nt