Once again we see the political operatives of the One Percent hiding their crimes behind secrecy classifications. Once again we see that Tweedle-Obama is interchangeable with Tweedle-Bush.
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| Manadel al-Jamadi’s beaten corpse, with a smiling US soldier |
In a 2006 report, Human Rights First documented that up to 12 men had been tortured to death in U.S. custody since 2002. Reviewing documents we've received more recently through a Freedom of Information Act request to the government, it now appears that up to 19 of 247 deaths involved torture. In only six of those cases was anyone held criminally liable. According to military documents, many more detainees -- we've counted 72 so far -- are believed to have been murdered. While in some cases charges were brought, in many they were dropped or the perpetrators received only administrative sanctions.