20 December 2004Crimes and Corruptions of The New World Order News
President Bush signed order to allow torture, says ACLU
A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq. Also released by the ACLU today are a slew of other records including a December 2003 FBI e-mail that characterizes methods used by the Defense Department as "torture" and a June 2004 "Urgent Report" to the Director of the FBI that raises concerns that abuse of detainees is being covered up.
"These documents raise grave questions about where the blame for widespread detainee abuse ultimately rests," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "Top government officials can no longer hide from public scrutiny by pointing the finger at a few low-ranking soldiers."
The documents were obtained after the ACLU and other public interest organizations filed a lawsuit against the government for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc." The ACLU is urging the White House to confirm or deny the existence of such an order and immediately to release the order if it exists. The FBI e-mail, which was sent in May 2004 from "On Scene Commander--Baghdad" to a handful of senior FBI officials, notes that the FBI has prohibited its agents from employing the techniques that the President is said to have authorized.
Another e-mail, dated December 2003, describes an incident in which Defense Department interrogators at Guantánamo Bay impersonated FBI agents while using "torture techniques" against a detainee. The e-mail concludes "If this detainee is ever released or his story made public in any way, DOD interrogators will not be held accountable because these torture techniques were done [sic] the 'FBI' interrogators. The FBI will [sic] left holding the bag before the public."
The document also says that no "intelligence of a threat neutralization nature" was garnered by the "FBI" interrogation, and that the FBI's Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) believes that the Defense Department's actions have destroyed any chance of prosecuting the detainee. The e-mail's author writes that he or she is documenting the incident "in order to protect the FBI."
"The methods that the Defense Department has adopted are illegal, immoral, and counterproductive," said ACLU staff attorney Jameel Jaffer. "It is astounding that these methods appear to have been adopted as a matter of policy by the highest levels of government."
The June 2004 "Urgent Report" addressed to the FBI Director is heavily redacted. The legible portions of the document appear to describe an account given to the FBI's Sacramento Field Office by an FBI agent who had "observed numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi civilian detainees," including "strangulation, beatings, [and] placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees ear openings." The document states that "[redacted] was providing this account to the FBI based on his knowledge that [redacted] were engaged in a cover-up of these abuses."
The release of these documents follows a federal court order that directed government agencies to comply with a year-old request under the Freedom of Information Act filed by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace. The New York Civil Liberties Union is co-counsel in the case.
Other documents released by the ACLU today include:
An FBI email regarding DOD personnel impersonating FBI officials during interrogations. The e-mail refers to a "ruse" and notes that "all of those [techniques] used in these scenarios" were approved by the Deputy Secretary of Defense. (Jan. 21, 2004) Another FBI agent's account of interrogations at Guantánamo in which detainees were shackled hand and foot in a fetal position on the floor. The agent states that the detainees were kept in that position for 18 to 24 hours at a time and most had "urinated or defacated [sic]" on themselves. on one occasion, the agent reports having seen a detainee left in an unventilated, non-air conditioned room at a temperature "probably well over a hundred degrees." The agent notes: "The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night." (Aug. 2, 2004) An e-mail stating that an Army lawyer "worked hard to cwrite [sic] a legal justification for the type of interrogations they (the Army) want to conduct" at Guantánamo Bay. (Dec. 9, 2002) An e-mail noting the initiation of an FBI investigation into the alleged rape of a juvenile male detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (July 28, 2004) An FBI agent's account of an interrogation at Guantánamo - an interrogation apparently conducted by Defense Department personnel - in which a detainee was wrapped in an Israeli flag and bombarded with loud music and strobe lights. (July 30, 2004) The ACLU and its allies are scheduled to go to court again this afternoon, where they will seek an order compelling the CIA to turn over records related to an internal investigation into detainee abuse. Although the ACLU has received more than 9,000 documents from other agencies, the CIA refuses to confirm or deny even the existence of many of the records that the ACLU and other plaintiffs have requested. The CIA is reported to have been involved in abusing detainees in Iraq and at secret CIA detention facilities around the globe.
The lawsuit is being handled by Lawrence Lustberg and Megan Lewis of the New Jersey-based law firm Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C. Other attorneys in the case are Jaffer, Amrit Singh and Judy Rabinovitz of the ACLU; Art Eisenberg and Beth Haroules of the NYCLU; and Barbara Olshansky and Jeff Fogel of CCR.
The documents referenced above can be found at: http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/fbi.html.
More on the lawsuit can be found at: http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/.
Newly Obtained FBI Records Call Defense Department's Methods "Torture," Express Concerns Over "Cover-Up" That May Leave FBI "Holding the Bag" for Abuse
News release and documents made public today by the ACLU points a finger at the President. The information releases indicates President Bush signed an executive order permitting inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq.
December 20, 2004
posted Monday, 20 December 2004
A visitor made this comment,I'm amazed,why now but not before nov.2?That Kerry scum bag,knew all along about the torture--not a peep from the closet Jew.Bush is a dangerous man.Americans are such fools.The lesson they need is-150,00 GIs need burial in Iraq.I would love to stick a lite cigars in each USA soldiers ears.Only good ones are the ones awalling!george in toronto
comment added :: 20th December 2004, 19:40 GMT-07 A visitor made this comment,If this is true should'nt we put Bush behind Bars.Donald Wiley [[email protected]]
comment added :: 20th December 2004, 20:14 GMT-07 Mark Twain made this comment,
Interment camps being built in Louisiana
Homeland Security builds camps
Visit me @ http://judicial-inc.biz/interment_camps.htm
comment added :: 20th December 2004, 21:50 GMT-07 A visitor made this comment,I detest the ACLU's anti religion actions and many other things they are in favor of, but if what they got hold of is even 1/4th true, then they have done one good thing today. I truly hope it is true about the inhumane treatment being traced all the way to the top, as I have long suspected. Please excuse me while I sit back in my chair and laugh myself silly at the stupid, dumbed down MORONS who actually believed this monkey called Bush and were insane enough to help him get re selected. BTW, anyone with 2 working brain cells would be able to connect the dots and figure out that the 2004 "election" was a miserable joke on the US citizens.
carol brown
comment added :: 20th December 2004, 23:29 GMT-07 A visitor made this comment,If any of this is true, and the ACLU can prove it, then Mr. Bush and his whole rotten gang should be brought up on all sorts of charges!!!This seriously burns my bacon!!!
Andrew Collins
comment added :: 20th December 2004, 23:36 GMT-07 A visitor made this comment,It's been 1191 days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!' "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified." www.whatreallyhappened.com/quickindex
Israelis Compare Pullout Plan to Holocausthttp://apnews.myway.com/article/20041221/D8742QR00.htmlSettler activists in Gaza said they would distribute the orange stars - reminiscent of the yellow stars that Jews living under Nazi rule were forced to wear - this weekend.
Fallujans are to wear their universal identity cards in plain sight at all times. The ID cards will, according to Dahr Jamail's information, be made into badges that contain the individual's home address. This sort of system has no purpose except to allow for the monitoring of everyone in the city, so that ongoing American patrols can quickly determine if someone is not a registered citizen or is suspiciously far from their home neighborhood. http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/12/12_580.htmlThe Falluja police-state strategy represents a sign of weakness, not strength. The new Falluja imagined by American planners is a desperate, ad hoc response to the failure of the battle to "break the back of the guerrillas." Like the initial attack on the city, it too is doomed to failure, though it has the perverse "promise" of deepening the suffering of the Iraqis.
"Enemies of freedom" seek to derail Iraqhttp://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=Z3JV1IRD1H3BKCRBAE0CFFA?type=worldNews&storyID=642187The White House has vowed that the "enemies of freedom" in Iraq will be defeated as a deadly attack at a U.S. base in northern Iraq presents a fresh challenge for President George W. Bush.
Attack on U.S.-Iraqi Base Leaves 22 Dead http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=041221&cat=news&st=newsd8743e7g0&src=apBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - At least 22 people were killed and 50 wounded Tuesday in an attack at a U.S. and Iraqi base near Mosul in Iraq, a Pentagon official said.
An explosion at a U.S. base near the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday caused "multiple causalities," the U.S. military said. http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=041221&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20041221_386&src=abcThe cause of the blast, which occurred around noon, was under investigation, the statement said.
"An explosion occurred at a US military installation in Mosul causing multiple casualties," a statement said.http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/ukandworld/tm_objectid=15001646&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=22-killed-in-blast-at-us-base-name_page.htmlThe explosion hit a dining hall in the joint US-Iraqi National Guard base."The cause of the explosion is under investigation," it added.
Poll: Most Americans Think Iraq War Not Worth Fighting http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14266-2004Dec20.htmlMost Americans now believe the war with Iraq was not worth fighting and more than half want to fire embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the chief architect of that conflict, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Harsh interrogations in Iraq went beyond FBI standards, memo sayshttp://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10462815.htm"No such executive order exists or has ever existed," said Frederick Jones, a spokesman for the National Security Council. The Abu Ghraib scandal, exposed in graphic photos, showed the abuse and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners, including the use of hooding and intimidation by dogs.
FBI agents in the Guantánamo Bay prison witnessed harsh abuses of prisoners that included being left in their own feces, chained in ice-cold or super-hot cells and other interrogation techniques that caused one prisoner to pull his hair from his head, documents released Monday show.http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10465969.htm?1c``We have no evidence to suggest that this ever happened here,'' Navy Cmdr. Robert Mulac, a Guantánamo spokesman, said Nov. 6. ``We do not treat the detainees inhumanely or with disdain or humiliation.''
F.B.I. memorandums portray abuse of prisoners by American military personnel in Iraq that included detainees' being beaten and choked and having lit cigarettes placed in their ears, according to newly released government documents.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/politics/21abuse.html?ei=5006&en=5c03bc4bced03ea3&ex=1104210000&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print&position=The documents, released Monday in connection with a lawsuit accusing the government of being complicit in torture, also include accounts by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who said they had seen detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, being chained in uncomfortable positions for up to 24 hours and left to urinate and defecate on themselves. An agent wrote that in one case a detainee who was nearly unconscious had pulled out much of his hair during the night. An FBI agent's account of an interrogation at Guantánamo - an interrogation apparently conducted by Defense Department personnel - in which a detainee was wrapped in an Israeli flag and bombarded with loud music and strobe lights.
FBI E-Mail Refers to Presidential Order Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206An e-mail noting the initiation of an FBI investigation into the alleged rape of a juvenile male detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (July 28, 2004)
When will the president respond to the cascading allegations of prisoner abuse by the military? A Marine guard in Iraq sprayed an alcohol-based liquid on a detainee, struck a match and ignited the prisoner, burning and blistering the man's hands. Another Marine held wires from an electric transformer to a detainee's shoulders, so that the man "danced as he was shocked," according to military documents made public this month. http://207.44.245.159/article7519.htm
President Bush signed order to allow torturehttp://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/967790.htm
crusader bunnypants [[email protected]]
comment added :: 21st December 2004, 09:21 GMT-07 A visitor made this comment,When will this president tell the truth about anything is a better question. He started 2 wars on lies so his buddy at Haliburton can make a few millions on the backs of the American People.He has passed Patriot Act 1 and ll which take away all the rights you had for the last 200 years, and he did it without letting the people know he was doing it. They tried to keep it secret anyway. The american people are nothing more than economic slaves now. And he stole 2 elections in a row. The people just bent over for more. Look what happened in the Ukraine when they tried the election thing there. Not in this country of cowards.Paul Revere [[email protected]]
comment added :: 21st December 2004, 10:28 GMT-07 A visitor made this comment,I can't read this blog very well. It is much widerthan my screan, and the prindout of page 1 is inprint only about one-fifteenth or twentieth of aninch high. Not withstanding, if the ACLU reads this, myplea to them is to for justice' sake, find a way toget this shadowy figure inhabiting the White Houseand genociding the Arabs and their culture IMPEACHED!Fennel [[email protected]]
comment added :: 21st December 2004, 18:00 GMT-07
