2004.05.15 - PEGC Extra
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1) SEYMOUR HERSH BLOWS THE DOORS OFF

The New Yorker --

Issue of May 24, 2004

THE GRAY ZONE
HOW A SECRET PENTAGON PROGRAM CAME TO ABU GHRAIB

by Seymour M. Hersh

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact


Now we are getting somewhere.

I've been trying to call attention to the "interagency legal group" for some
time. This is directly related -- not a doubt in my mind.

PS: I've asked my one last contact on the Senate Judiciary Committee to put me
in touch with Sen. Levin's staff, but I doubt that will do any good. <YAWN>

I am so ready to go public. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Earlier, GEN Hill, CIC SOUTHCOM, expressed the opinion that MG Miller's
performance at JTF-GTMO was the finest example of soldiering he'd witnessed in
his career.

Weirdly enough, half of me agrees with that assessment -- but the other half
knows damn well that JTF-GTMO is an organization which exists for the sole
purpose of violating the Geneva Conventions and US law. I also suspect very
strongly that CPT Yee, SrA Al Halabi, and civilian translator Mehalba were
all framed for crimes they did not commit in order to silence them and/or make
examples of them.

It's time for MG Miller to come clean under oath and / or face criminal charges:

HONOR BOUND.


Oh, and that reminds me... there was one detail I left out of my story about the
Al Halabi hearing. During one of the question sessions with the press out in the
parking lot I asked Don Rehkopf if the defense planned to call MG Miller as a
witness. The answer was that they had sent someone to try and talk to him, but
that he was "too busy". Perhaps a US Senate subpoena would help free up his
time.



2) OP-ED

International Action Center --

May 15, 2004
US TORTURE: THE EXCEPTION OR THE RULE?
By Sara Flounders

http://www.iacenter.org/torture_0504.htm



Regards,

Charly

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Charles Gittings
Oakland, California

cbgittings@sbcglobal. net

+1-510-923-1688

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