ACLU: Bush Admin Tried To Create Gitmo Inside The US

[ThePhoenix]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ACLU_Bush_admin_tried_to_create_1008.html

The US military was using the same procedures employed at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison at other facilities inside the United States where US citizens and legal residents were detained, according to documents released Wednesday.

At least one Navy officer was concerned that a detainee was being slowly driven insane by the policies, which prohibited detainees from having items such as shoes or socks, according to 91 pages of e-mails between officers at military brigs in Virginia and South Carolina released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

"These documents are the first clear confirmation of what we've suspected all along, that the brig was run as a prison beyond the law. There was an effort to create a Gitmo inside the United States," Jonathan Hafetz of the ACLU's National Security Project in New York told the Associated Press, using the slang word for the U.S. naval facility in Cuba.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. My uncle was warning me about the FEMA camps BEFORE * was elected.

It starts with Homeland Gitmo's and it degenerates to wholesale camps.

This is no surprise to me except that they got caught.

[intheflow]

2. Kicking

this makes me queasy.

[edwardian]

3. It should make you angry,

and it should be your wake up call.

[intheflow]

6. Baby, I woke up a long time ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x14130

So when I say you're preaching to choir, I'm talking as someone who has literally preached to the choir about fascism.

[LynnTheDem]

4. German citizens said they didn't know about the torture & death camps.

I never believed them.

Before.

[tom_paine]

5. The Bushies have turned all of Amerika into Gitmo