Monday, July 25, 2005

Bush Files 11th Hr Block over More Abu Ghraib Pix

Ok, so Bush threatens to veto a massive Senate bill for $442 billion in next yr's defense programs if it moves to regulate the Pentagon's treatment of detainees or sets up a commission to investigate operations at Gitmo and elsewhere. If threatening to veto anything that would curb, restrict, regulate or -God forbid- investigate the treatment of detainees was not bad enough, Bush pulls this amazingly demonic feat: In June, the govt requested and received an extension from the judge stating that they needed time in order to redact the faces of the men, women & children believed to be shown in the publicly unreleased photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib. The Bush Administration was given until 7/22 to produce the images, but at the 11th hr, they filed a motion to oppose the release of the photos and videos (more than 100 photos/ 4 videos, all believed to document deplorable & perhaps criminal human rights violations by US military personnel against Iraqi civilians) based on an entirely new argument: they are now requesting a 7(F) exemption from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act to w/hold law enforcement-related information in order to protect the physical safety of individuals. Read Rumsfeld's quote about these unreleased pix, and read Seymour Hersh's 2004 news that these videos/pix will show children being detained & boys being sodomized. This move is the latest in a series of attempts by the govt to keep the images from being made public and to cover up the torture of detainees in US custody around the world. Psst... the rest of the world already knows that we did VERY, VERY BAD THINGS so W, why not just own up to what you ordered to be done?
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