http://www.metafilter.com/tags/AbuGahraib Posts tagged with 'AbuGahraib' at MetaFilter. Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:49:51 -0800 Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:49:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/33479/Torture%2Dand%2DTruth%2Dand%2DThe%2DLogic%2Dof%2DTorture <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17150" title="To date the true actors in those lurid scenes, who are professionals and no doubt embarrassed by the garish brutality of their apprentices in the military police, have remained offstage. None has testified. The question we must ask in coming days, as Specialist Jeremy Sivits and other young Americans face public courts-martial in Baghdad, is whether or not we as Americans can face a true revelation. We must look squarely at the photographs and ask: Is what has changed only what we know, or what we are willing to accept?">Torture and Truth </a>and <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17190" title=>The Logic of Torture</a>--Mark Danner writes about <em>Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (The Taguba Report)</em> and <em>Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation</em> in the former and concludes thusly in the latter:<br><br><small>Behind the exotic brutality so painstakingly recorded in Abu Ghraib, and the multiple tangled plotlines that will be teased out in the coming weeks and months about responsibility, knowledge, and culpability, lies a simple truth, well known but not yet publicly admitted in Washington: that since the attacks of September 11, 2001, officials of the United States, at various locations around the world, from Bagram in Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba to Abu Ghraib in Iraq, have been torturing prisoners. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (More Within)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33479 Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:49:51 -0800 AbuGahraib Coalition Cuba Danner GenevaConvention Guantanamo Internment Interrogation Iraq MarkDanner POW PrisonerOfWar RedCross Taguba Torture y2karl