The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has decided that four British men held at Guantanamo were not "persons," and that "It was foreseeable that conduct that would ordinarily be indisputably 'seriously criminal' would be implemented by military officials responsible for detaining and interrogating suspected enemy combatants,'' McClatchy reports. (In other words, torture was to be expected.)
As the men's lawyer, Eric Lewis, noted, "It is an awful day for the rule of law and common decency when a court finds that torture is all in a day's work for the secretary of defense and senior generals."
At a time when many of us are focused on the November elections and the end of the Bush administration, we should all remember the injustices that are still being committed in our names and, in all likelihood, will be for many months to come.
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This is obscene.
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