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The Secret ICRC Report

By Simon Chester

Those of us who were trained to look at the documents - always the documents as I.F. Stone taught - will find the attached documents on the torture of those detained at Guantánamo Bay detention centre both fascinating and chilling.

For the record here are the links:

Here is the Report, together with Mark Danner’s two part article entitled US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites and The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means, which deserves a Pulitzer Prize.

Links to a Rachel Maddow video interview and an audio interview from NPR.

And the background Bush documentation that justified the whole procedure.

The Bush Administration’s formal statements are here:

Bush Calls Freedom from Torture “Inalienable Human Right”

Bush Commemorates U.N. Day to Support Torture Victims

President Meets with McCain & Warner, Discusses Position on Interrogation

Press Briefing by White House Counsel Judge Alberto Gonzales, DoD General Counsel William Haynes, DoD Deputy General Counsel Daniel Dell’Orto and Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence General Keith Alexander

President Bush Welcomes Prime Minister of Hungary

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).