Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Neptune Rx....more Bush Administration secrey unveiled

Neptune continues to review and unveil facades in its retrograde journey........



From Washington D.C. today, I sadly read more from the Washington Post: more details about US abuse of prisoners and non-disclosure of documents. The secrecy and conspiracy behavior continues:



"THE LATEST FBI documents detailing allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay are, like previous FBI documents, highly disturbing. They contain prisoners' descriptions of beatings, strippings and abuse of the Koran. Detainees variously claim the Muslim holy book has been thrown on the floor, thrown against a wall and, yes, flushed in a toilet. There are also references to these kinds of events having led to an 'altercation' between detainees and guards.

But the status of these documents is nearly as disturbing as their content. They can be found, again like previous FBI documents, only on the Web site of the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained them by suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act. They did not, in other words, appear in the context of a government or military investigation. After the ACLU released the documents Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence T. Di Rita implied that such an investigation would be unnecessary, since these 'fantastic charges about our guys doing something willfully heinous to a Koran for the purposes of rattling detainees are not credible on their face.' But then, on Thursday, the commander of the Guantanamo facility, Brig. Gen. Jay W. Hood, acknowledged that incidents 'broadly defined as mishandling of a Koran' had in fact taken place. Brig. Gen. Hood made this announcement following an investigation that he said had begun 12 days earlier -- which points to the deeper problem."



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