Wednesday, December 22, 2004

He Does Have That Look in His Eyes...

FBI files implicate Bush in Iraqi jail abuses

"Violent abuse of prisoners by US forces in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay was widespread as recently as four months ago, according to documents released yesterday.

Secret FBI memorandums, which the Bush Administration was forced to release by a court order won by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), reveal the disgust of FBI officials who witnessed the abuse.

They also show that violence against prisoners, including the use of snarling dogs and forcing detainees to defecate on themselves, was still an interrogation tactic months after the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal caused outrage in April.

The White House denied an allegation in one memo that President Bush had signed a 'new executive order' authorising 'sleep management', stress positions, use of dogs, sensory deprivation and 'yelling at subjects and prisoners with hoods on their heads', methods forbidden for FBI agents."
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"This is the person who, when told by Philadelphia journalist Bill Hangley on July 4, 2001 that he was 'very disappointed in your work so far,' responded 'Who cares what you think?' 'His face stayed photo-op perfect but his eyes gave me a look that said, if we'd been drinking in some frat house in Texas, he'd've happily answered, 'let's take it outside.' A nasty little gleam. But he was (fortunately) constrained by presidential propriety,' Hangley wrote in the version of his encounter that circulated the Internet during the summer 2001.

This is also the person who, in an interview with Tucker Carlson for Talk magazine mocked death-row inmate and born-again Christian Karla Faye Tucker, imitating her on a supposed Larry King Live broadcast saying, 'Please don't kill me.'"
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