From an article by Scott Horton in Harper’s Magazine:
The Bush White House vehemently objected to provisions of the law dealing with rape by instrumentality. When House negotiators pressed to know why, they were met first with silence and then an embarrassed acknowledgment that a key part of the Bush program included invasion of the bodies of prisoners in a way that might be deemed rape by instrumentality under existing federal and state criminal statutes.
George W. Bush and company not only knew that US personel were anal raping detainees in secret prisons, they were trying to stop legislation for military contractors because the law specifically outlawed anal rape of detainees, and Bush-Co wanted to keep it legal.
The Bush administration attempted to create a legal loophole for military contractors to anal rape detainees.
If you’re mind is not boggling right now, you’re not paying attention.
Whatever Obama thinks about “looking forward” rather than “looking back”, there can be absolutely no doubt that Bush-Co committed massive violations of the Geneva Convention, Bush-Co committed massive War Crimes. Letting these activities go without any serious attempt to bring justice back to the country is morally unforgivable.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004409
found via Hullabaloo:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/breaking-down-sense-of-impenetrability.html
To quote Hullabaloo: Are we really just going to let this stuff go? Really?
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