By Martin Longman (BooMan) and SusanHu (SusanHu)
Reprinted at MyDD
These are dark times. Our government has engaged in acts so vile, so inhumane, and so shameful, that we cannot allow the truth to be published without it causing an international crisis.
When Newsweek published an account that "interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur'an down a toilet and led a detainee around with a collar and dog leash", they were not breaking any news.
Accounts of this sort have been in the public square for over two years (see below).
The only novelty to Newsweek's report was that a `senior U.S. government official', who was knowledgeable about Southern Command's investigation into Gitmo abuse, verified it. This anonymous source has since backtracked on a very specific aspect of the story.
The source is no longer sure that he read accounts of Qur'anic desecration in the Southern Command report. But he still remembers reading about Qur'anic desecration. It would be interesting to know whether the source read those `investigative reports' in other official government documents, or in the variety of newspapers and magazines that have reported on this issue since 2002.
It's not hard to find these accounts. A simple Google search will do.
Click here to read the rest.
They have example after example of this same story being reported all over without comment from the administration.
We must not let this direct interference in the media be seen as acceptable. We must fight back. The arrogance of these people at first astounded me, and now it frightens me.
Welcome to the Weimar Republic.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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