Reply #11: Thanks for the reminder . . .

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In fact I don't recall that one -- so much torture, so little time!!

I'll have to look it up. But this seems a man HIGHLY unsuited as military leader.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/01/will-the-senate-ask-mcchrystal-about-torture-under-his-command/

Got it -- thank you --

Sadly . . .

It was so secretive that a military witness told a Human Rights Watch investigator:

the colonel told them that he "had this directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon that there’s no way that the Red Cross could get in…they just don’t have access, and they won’t have access, and they never will. This facility was completely closed off to anybody investigating. Even Army investigators."

AND . . .

Placards posted by soldiers at the detention area advised, ”NO BLOOD, NO FOUL.” The slogan, as one Defense Department official explained, reflected an adage adopted by Task Force 6-26: ”If you don’t make them bleed, they can’t prosecute for it.” According to Pentagon specialists who worked with the unit, prisoners at Camp Nama often disappeared into a detention black hole, barred from access to lawyers or relatives, and confined for weeks without charges. ”The reality is, there were no rules there,” another Pentagon official said