Even as the convening authority of the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Susan Crawford, finally comes forward with revelations of torture at Guantanamo Bay against suspected terrorist Mohammed al-Qahtani, our corporate media and others continue to whitewash the Bush/Cheney torture legacy.
In the first place, this is not new information, by any stretch. Almost three years ago, in February 2006, Jean Mayer wrote in the New Yorker about the General Counsel of the U.S. Navy, Alberto Mora’s attempt to put a stop to the torture. Mayer’s article describes a 22-page memo by Mora, released in July 2004, which showed that in 2002 Mora tried to put a halt to what he saw as “a disastrous and unlawful policy of authorizing cruelty towards terrorism suspects”.
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