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WEDNESDAY MAY 25 2005 7:06 PM

ACLU - "Newsweek Got It Right."

Submitted by Dead_Ringer

Edited by s5

According to documents recently declassified by the FBI, prisoners at the Bush Administration's favorite torture facility, told interrogators as early as April 2002 about abuse by guards and desecration of the Koran.

The records, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act, purport to detail guards flushing the Koran in the toilet. Others reported the Koran being kicked, withheld as punishment, and thrown on the floor, and said they were mocked during prayers. And

in the documents released today, one detainee informs his FBI interviewers that using the Koran "as a reprisal or as an incentive for cooperation has failed," and that the only result would be "the damage caused to the reputation of the United States once what had occurred was released to the world." While another detainee acknowledged that there might be "a legitimate need to search the book for hidden items," he objected to the abusive manner in which the searches were conducted.

The ACLU issued a press release today, stating that

The United States governments own documents show that it has known of numerous allegations of Koran desecration for a significant period of time... [and] its failure to address these allegations in a timely manner raises grave questions regarding the extent to which such desecration was authorized by high-ranking U.S. officials in the first place.

Certainly it is reasonable to assume that the usual suspects who rail against the liberal media at every available opportunity in order to distract from the Bush Administration's litany of failures, will publicly apologize for their hackish and partisan "assessment" of Newseek's story of abuse at Guantánamo Bay. Scott McClellan will most likely follow suit for the White House's bullying of Newsweek and other publications.

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Comments

Holden_Caulfield

Ann Arbor, MI

April 2004

MAY 25, 2005 07:15 PM

Who's blaming the "liberal media" now?!?

I wonder whether Newsweek will retract their retraction? Is there such a thing?

*Edited for punctuation*

[Edited on May 25, 2005 10:15PM]

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

MAY 25, 2005 07:22 PM

I'll say it again. I heart the ACLU sometimes.

-TM

tenmile

Minneapolis, MN

January 2004

MAY 25, 2005 07:27 PM

Certainly it is reasonable to assume that the usual suspects who rail against the liberal media at every available opportunity in order to distract from the Bush Administration's litany of failures, will publicly apologize for their hackish and partisan "assessment" of Newseek's story of abuse at Guantánamo Bay. Scott McClellan will most likely follow suit for the White House's bullying of Newsweek and other publications.

Ha! Apology accepted Lasswell.

hebeighost

USA

June 2004

MAY 25, 2005 07:33 PM

I like the ACLU. They are equal opportunity pigfuckers. They throw wrenches in everyones spokes, not just the ones they don't like.

Wohoo!
NASCAR!

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA

March 2004

MAY 25, 2005 07:40 PM

hebeighost said:
I like the ACLU. They are equal opportunity pigfuckers. They throw wrenches in everyones spokes, not just the ones they don't like.

In theory. I considered joining them for a while, but they send me these letters that suggest I join the ACLU, throwing around all sorts of political rhetoric. While part of me knows that they're just appealing to me because they know I'm a Democrat and are sending this stuff to make it sound like they're a liberal rights organization, I still get irked by it and think that if they're going to make their members Democrats, they're going to be more lenient with Democrats. Which I don't like. It makes me distrust them to some extent.

Edit: I am strictly discussing the ACLU in this post. I don't doubt that this story is true.

[Edited on May 25, 2005 by TedKoppel]