Needlenose

Jeremy Scahill of AlterNet claims that torture and brutality are alive and well at Gitmo under Obama:

“…IRF teams in effect operate at Guantánamo as an extrajudicial terror squad that has regularly brutalized prisoners outside of the interrogation room, gang beating them, forcing their heads into toilets, breaking bones, gouging their eyes, squeezing their testicles, urinating on a prisoner’s head, banging their heads on concrete floors and hog-tying them — sometimes leaving prisoners tied in excruciating positions for hours on end.”

And speaking of Obama carrying on evil Shrubyian policies, in spite of his attempt to suppress the release of the additional Abu Ghraib torture photos from yesteryear, some of them have been leaking out.  Follow this link if the ‘classic’ Abu Ghraib pics didn’t make you queasy: http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/02/15/1139890768716.html.

I just had to chuckle when I read this article about the U.S. is refusing to send 17 Chinese Muslim Guantanamo detainees to the PRC for “fear they might be tortured.”  As opposed to the coddling they are getting at Gitmo?  Maybe they are just jealous of the PRC, afraid their techniques will do a better job of extracting fantastic tales of imagined conspiracies than the waterboarding, stress positions and other “Bush League” methods we employ?

Seriously, how could a government PR person issue a statement like that with a straight face?