Summary
Perhaps as shocking as reports that more than 100 people have died, nearly a quarter of them in homicides, in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan was the lack of outrage over this news. While Congress has been busy trying to save a single life and questioning baseball players about steroid use, no one has called for an investigation of the ongoing treatment of prisoners at the hands of the American military. Someone should.
When news of the prison abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq began to leak out, U.S. defense officials said such behavior was an aberration. Hundreds of photos and subsequent investigations showed this was not the case. Now, with the disclosure that the number of detainee deaths is far higher than the military previously reported, officials are again downplaying the severity. If Congress learned its lessons from Abu Ghraib, it will not take the military's word this time.See the full content of this document
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Detention Failures
By compiling data from several government agencies, the Associated Press determined that at least ...
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