Skeptic
17th May 2004, 22:16
Revelations Lead to Rumsfeld's Door
Revolutionary Worker #1241, May 23, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org
As we go to press, senior CIA officials, both past and present, have reportedly leaked that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld approved the extreme interrogation methods used against Iraqi detainees under U.S. control. Their accounts appear in a New Yorker article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh (May 24 available at http://newyorker.com).
These revelations have far-reaching implications--first because they document that the approval of torture was made at the very highest levels of the government, and second, because an intensifying inner-ruling class struggle has now erupted with such ferocity that it is breaking into the headlines...
...However, even before Hersh's latest report, there has been clear evidence that the torture, murder and bizarre sexual abuse of prisoners were being carried out on a worldwide scale. Every day new revelations have come out about how the U.S. military and CIA treated prisoners--rape, forced public masturbation and anal penetration, biting dogs, violent beatings, severe burning of prisoners, electric shock and telling prisoners their female relatives would be hunted down and raped. Many cases are surfacing that document prisoners being beaten and tortured to death.
And it was increasingly unmistakable that all this had been approved (and even demanded) at the very highest levels of the U.S. government--including in the Pentagon, the CIA, the Justice Department, and ultimately the White House itself.
You can read the full article at:
Revelations Lead to Rumsfeld's Door --RW/OR ONLINE
This article is posted in English and Spanish on Revolutionary Worker Online
http://rwor.org
Revolutionary Worker #1241, May 23, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org
As we go to press, senior CIA officials, both past and present, have reportedly leaked that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld approved the extreme interrogation methods used against Iraqi detainees under U.S. control. Their accounts appear in a New Yorker article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh (May 24 available at http://newyorker.com).
These revelations have far-reaching implications--first because they document that the approval of torture was made at the very highest levels of the government, and second, because an intensifying inner-ruling class struggle has now erupted with such ferocity that it is breaking into the headlines...
...However, even before Hersh's latest report, there has been clear evidence that the torture, murder and bizarre sexual abuse of prisoners were being carried out on a worldwide scale. Every day new revelations have come out about how the U.S. military and CIA treated prisoners--rape, forced public masturbation and anal penetration, biting dogs, violent beatings, severe burning of prisoners, electric shock and telling prisoners their female relatives would be hunted down and raped. Many cases are surfacing that document prisoners being beaten and tortured to death.
And it was increasingly unmistakable that all this had been approved (and even demanded) at the very highest levels of the U.S. government--including in the Pentagon, the CIA, the Justice Department, and ultimately the White House itself.
You can read the full article at:
Revelations Lead to Rumsfeld's Door --RW/OR ONLINE
This article is posted in English and Spanish on Revolutionary Worker Online
http://rwor.org