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The Horror Of The Bush Years
Eschaton — The Horror Of The Bush Years No matter how bad you imagine it to be, it ends up being even worse .

"Rape by instrumentality"
Corrente — Gitmo. But hey. Don't we need to look forward? Read more…

Scott Horton Keeps Us Up-to-Date on Some of the Bush Administration's Crimes
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Former Gitmo Guard Tells All—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine): Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo.... Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. “The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,” he told the Associated Press. Neely describes the arrival of detainees in full sensory-deprivation garb, he details their sexual abuse by medical personnel, torture by other medical personnel, brutal beatings out of frustration, fear, and retribution, the first hunger strike and its causes, torturous shackling, ...

Hullabaloo — ... There have been many similar reports of sodomy and other sexual abusecollected by the Center for Constitutional Rights, which have routinely been dismissed as some kind of slick propaganda training by Al Qaeda. Now we have a former Guantanamo prison guard also validating the charges --- and implicating medical personnel (which is another sick aspect of this that we've discussed at length, but still don't know the extent of.) Scott Horton reports: [T]the Nelly account shows that health professionals are right in the thick of ...

Facing up to our history
Rising Hegemon — Not that most of the media will help, but we have to (via Digby). Your Bush Administration at work: [T]the Nelly account shows that health professionals are right in the thick of the torture and abuse of the prisoners—suggesting a systematic collapse of professional ethics driven by the Pentagon itself. He describes body searches undertaken for no legitimate security purpose, simply to sexually invade and humiliate the prisoners. This was a standardized Bush Administration tactic–the importance of which became apparent ...

Grim tidings
The Sideshow — ... and Scott Horton discuss the fact that the torture regime of the Bush administration was pretty much as bad as it gets short of - as far as we know - deliberate murder of prisoners of war and other kidnap victims. And that, now, it seems, we are prepared to sweep it all under the rug. The simple fact is that George Walker Bush, Richard Bruce Cheney, and Donald Henry Rumsfeld deliberately conspired to commit the most heinous of crimes in our names. And we're okay with that? (Also: You do not negotiate with people whose goal is ...

Tortured Times
N/A — Now it can be told: “The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,” he told the Associated Press.“ An understatement from Scott Horton: “Neely’s account demonstrates once more how much the Bush team kept secret and how little we still know about their comprehensive program of official cruelty and torture.”

Tortured Times
Shakesville — Now it can be told: “The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,” he told the Associated Press." An understatement from Scott Horton: "Neely’s account demonstrates once more how much the Bush team kept secret and how little we still know about their comprehensive program of official cruelty and torture." The Heretik

Larisa Alexandrovna: We need the names of these "medical personnel"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Scott Horton has a fantastic read up at Harper's about a Gitmo guard who has now come forward to blow the whistle. Army Private Brandon Neely speaks of the unspeakable at the hands of "medical personnel." ...

Larisa Alexandrovna: Unspeakable Abuse at Gitmo -- We Need the Names of These "Medical Personnel"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Scott Horton has a fantastic read up at Harper's about a Gitmo guard who has now come forward to blow the whistle. Army Private Brandon Neely speaks of the unspeakable at the hands of "medical personnel." ...

Former Gitmo Guard's Tell-All
TalkLeft — ... Scott Horton in Harper's writes about former Guantanamo prison guard Brandon Neely's "tell-all" about his experience. Neely was a guard during the first year of Gitmo. Bottom line: Neely says "“The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong.” ...

Rubber Stamping Rape
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Scott Horton: [Former Guantanamo prison guard Brandon Neely] describes body searches undertaken for no legitimate security purpose, simply to sexually invade and humiliate the prisoners. This was a standardized Bush Administration tactic – the importance of which became apparent to me when I participated in some Capitol Hill negotiations with White House representatives relating to legislation creating criminal law accountability for contractors. The Bush White House vehemently objected to provisions of the law dealing with rape by instrumentality. When ...

CYA Establishmentarians
Booman Tribune — ... by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey. I swear that for the people that live inside the Beltway there is no crime abhorrent enough to warrant investigation, let alone prosecution, so long as the president is responsible for it. Issue orders to rape prisoners by instrumentation ? No problem. Politicize the Justice Department and ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for February 19, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... “… remember how vast the wreckage is. It stretches from the Middle East to Wall Street to Main Street and even into the heavens …” * * * The word’s “we don’t torture” didn’t ring true when George Bush first said them, and now someone has stepped forward to tell the truth!!!  " Former Gitmo Guard Tells All: 'The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,' ...