Calf. judge says combat school must name trainees

[IDemo]

Source: seattlepi.com

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge in California has ordered the government to disclose the names of Latin American military leaders who attended a Defense Department facility where protesters say the U.S. has trained notorious human rights abusers.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/ZOq0e4 ) one of the graduates of the Fort Benning, Ga., installation was Roberto d'Aubuisson, a Salvadoran politician accused by opponents of promoting death squads.

The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation provides training in combat and counterinsurgency techniques. It was formerly the School of the Americas.

The Chronicle says disclosure was ended during the George W. Bush administration. Before that the U.S. government regularly released the names of those who had attended the school.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Calf-judge-says-combat-school-must-name-trainees-4459472.php

[musical_soul]

1. The fact that school's even still open is insane.

[ancianita]

2. What if the school refuses?

[duhneece]

4. My question, too

But I always want to celebrate ANY good news about this torture school we pay for.

[Coyotl]

5. Torture school? Don't you mean assassination school. Operation Condor eliminated the left

almost entirely, every social activist dead. Granted, they were tortured first, of course, then thrown out of planes.

[dipsydoodle]

3. The infamous School of the Americas.

Hopefully that will be all of the RW ex- Latin American military leaders who were taught how to kill their own populations.

[pmorlan1]

6. Obama Administration argued against this ruling

I found this within The San Francisco Chronicle article referenced above.

The Obama administration argued that release of the records could expose trainees to "violence and harassment."

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Calf-judge-says-combat-school-must-name-trainees-4459472.php#ixzz2ROmTBzZL

The Obama administration evidently wanted to continue yet another Bush administration policy. I'm glad that the judge didn't buy their argument.