Topic: Law & Justice (320)
How our US Government falsifies documents
This statement was posted on the DOD website on Saturday - and I took a computer photo of it on Sunday - to catch them if they changed it. Well, they went back and doctored it - improved it - without
This statement was posted on the DOD website on Saturday - and I took a computer photo of it on Sunday - to catch them if they changed it. Well, they went back and doctored it - improved it - without
If government documents are modified for the protection and convenience of government agencies and employees, then the idea of documents goes out the window. We cannot trust government documents to be what they say they are. In the old days of paper, this could not be done once documents were released to the public. Now, with electronic documents on the Internet, it is very tempting. Too tempting, apparently.
So - they lie and twist the truth to suit their needs. It is not a question of if they do it, but rather a question of how often. Why am I not surprised? I first looked at this DOD press release via a link from the blog of Josh Marshall on Sunday, and then today Josh noticed the change. In the right side column under War & Peace is a link to his website.
Sy Hersh has exposed some serious military scandals in the past - and the Pentagon accused Hersh of false reporting then. Sy was proved correct. His story in the New Yorker asserts that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld authorized the torture of prisoners.
A careful reading of the Pentagon statement shows they do not actually deny the story is correct. The statement rants and insults Sy Hersh and his magazine, but does not actually deny the main charge that Rumsfeld authorized the torture.
Oh, and yeah, I made another screen dump just now. Will it be doctored again?
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How our US Government falsifies documents
This statement was posted on the DOD website on Saturday - and I took a computer photo of it on Sunday - to catch them if they changed it. Well, they went back and doctored it - improved it - without
Torture. What is it?
It is to cause extreme physical or mental pain for punishment or to extract a confession or information. Our government officials are now saying we do not torture because we follow the Geneva rules. T
This is a kangaroo court at its finest
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Questions not being asked by the press about the abuses. At least I’ve not run across them in news reports. The reports have not gone into any more detail in three days. We see a few more photos but n
The military police are not the culprits
Colonel Thomas Pappas continues in command of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade - according to today’s Baltimore Sun. He is the bastard who has the most to answer for in this whole abuse mess. A
Let the reporting be comprehensive
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The abuse of Iraqi prisoners
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