Robert Scheer is right. This released file of the Office of the Inspector General(of the Justice Dept)'s report on torture used on Gitmo detainees should be read. It is made clear that torture is a policy of the CIA and the military, and has been approved at different times by the administration. We knew it already, but this makes it more real and you can picture the people involved. It's horrible.

aclu.org/safefree/torture/

It's a PDF file, and very long. I recommend opening just part 3, and going straight to the portions starting at page 67 and 77.

The CIA, of course, isn't the official target of this investigation, because -- I guess, no one interrogates the CIA and the CIA never answers questions. All this information comes by way of members of the FBI. I feel a little better toward that institution, but not a whole lot. But at least the FBI agents sent to interview detainees were using (and advocating to the CIA) techniques which would treat the prisoners as human beings -- and were pointing out that using cruelty results in false information. It doesn't work. But Robert Mueller did nothing to stop the torture.

Those sections from pg. 67 and 77 and on have a lot of blacked out portions. Another prisoner's name is repeatedly cut out when the interrogation of Al-Qahtani is discussed. I wonder who this was -- a Canadian, an Australian (David Hicks?), maybe, who is now back in his own country? It seems a little more than just another name we aren't allowed to know.

This torture camp should be closed and the people released, with perhaps the exception of 15. But I'm not even sure about the legitimacy of holding them, either. Not after we've mistreated and tortured them.

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I can't believe we did this...or should I say they did...horrible