Journal qtp's Journal: Abu Grahib Torture is typical of DOD and CIA policy... 1
Although I wish that this were not true. according to documents received by the National Security Archive, the types of abuse and torture that have been recently been revealed in the news are described in training manuals produced by the DOD and the CIA. Included in the release is the near legendary KUBARK manual and the CIA's "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual", along with other materials that demonstrate that our Presidential administrations have been aware of these materials for some time now.
It's sort of embarassing to see the military and government scrambling around this issue while the evidence has already been pried from their overly secretive claws. Perhaps if the mainstream press would consider making use of the Archive rather than simply accepting the crapflood that is fed them, the citizens of my country would have some reliable information when deciding for whom to vote.
The documents were released under FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act. (The provided link may or may not work, I have been unable to access the DOJ website for about two months now.) More information about FOIA is available from the ACLU and the National Security Archive.
sad but true (Score:2)
As for the information itself... well, this is not really surprising to me, but it's nice to have evidence. The thing is, once you buy into the position that the end justifies the means (and it is abundantly clear that our government has crossed that line long ago), you become capable of just about anything. Therefore, nothing that the proponents of this philosophy do surprises me any more.