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"Abu Ghraib became a bizarro world where detainees were kept on dog leashes, subjected to ""invasion of space by female" and bombarded with intolerable sounds, including "meows from cat-food commercials, Yoko Ono singing and Eminem rapping about America." From the...
"Abu Ghraib became a bizarro world where detainees were kept on dog leashes, subjected to ""invasion of space by female" and bombarded with intolerable sounds, including "meows from cat-food commercials, Yoko Ono singing and Eminem rapping about America." From the Times review of Jane Mayer's new book on American torture. 1 COMMENTS:
Even more startling:
Mayer also revealed in an interview on Fresh Air (and presumably in her book - I have yet to read it), that methods sought out by Cheney et al. were ones well known to have been used and designed by the Soviets specifically for extracting false confessions.
Cheney and Rumsfeld presumably understood the function/purpose of these methods better than anyone else, considering that they spent the entire Cold War studying and dealing with the USSR. This evidence bolsters the disturbing case put forward by Naomi Wolf in "The end of America: Letter of warning to a young patriot" (2007, Chelsea Green), that, following 9/11, America has witnessed a 'fascist shift' consisting of ten steps that regimes typically use to subvert free and open societies.
Nevertheless, according to Mayer, Cheney and Rumsfeld championed the use of these methods, against tremendous opposition from others in the administration, the DOJ, etc.(even from Ashcroft), and apparently even went so far as to censor the flow of information to the President.
Also, in NPR's excerpt from the book, Mayer cites a secret Reagan executive order (as occuring under Cheney's watch) authorizing the initiation of Continuity of Government (COG) plans without congress being notified. This makes plausible the scenario described by Ketcham (see link to article) that the USA is now legally under the control of some highly classified parallel government. According to Ketcham, last year two democratic congressmen were forbidden access to administration documents regarding the current structure of our government with respect to COG.
The facts reported by Mayer, Ketcham, and others, is, sadly, all too consistent with some of the most outrageous (but alas, all too credible) explanations for the collapses WTC buildings 1, 2 and 7. Such explanations are explained in part by ex Governor Jesse Ventura in his latest book, and by architects, engineers, scholars, and high placed intelligence officials on patriotsquestion911.org, ae911truth.org, and stj911.org.
For me and my family's sake, I hope to God that those analysts are all way off base. If you can justify rationally, on the weight of the evidence, that they are, please let me know, as it would give me great peace of mind.
Thanks and all the best.
Ketcham's article:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19871.htm
Posted by: Nicholas Grenier
at July 23, 2008 1:12 AM
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