Kraven Moorehead

Former Major General Antonio Taguba, the officer who conducted an inquiry into Abu Ghraib in 2004, has been interviewed by Britain's Daily Telegraph. In the interview he confirmed that the unreleased prisoner torture photos contain images of rape at Abu Ghraib.
Obama has made a huge mistake by not releasing these photographs, and is now shown to have stretched the truth very far when he claimed that "these photos that were requested in this case are not particularly sensational, especially when compared to the painful images that we remember from Abu Ghraib." No, Mr. President, these photos are
worse than those originally released from Abu Ghraib.

Maj Gen Taguba’s internal inquiry into the abuse at Abu Ghraib, included sworn statements by 13 detainees, which, he said in the report, he found "credible based on the clarity of their statements and supporting evidence provided by other witnesses."

Among the graphic statements, which were later released under US freedom of information laws, is that of Kasim Mehaddi Hilas in which he says: "I saw [name of a translator] ******* a kid, his age would be about 15 to 18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered and I saw [name] who was wearing the military uniform, putting his **** in the little kid’s ***.... and the female soldier was taking pictures."

We now have confirmation that the unspeakable accusations of child rape that Seymour Hersh alleged are true. American soldiers raped children at Abu Ghraib, and there is photographic evidence. Now all I have to ask is, are Americans ready to finally face the reckoning of what was done in our name? Because like it or not, these photos will be released, and no one will be able to ignore this horrible truth any longer.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday dealt President Barack Obama a blow by denying him the $80 million he sought to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, but the White House said that would not delay plans to shut it down by early next year.

The Senate voted 90-6 to strip the prison money from a $91.3 billion bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also barred the Obama administration from using any funds to bring the 240 detainees held there to U.S. soil through September 30.

In a setback for Obama, his fellow Democrats who control the Senate dumped the money after intense Republican criticism that the administration lacked a plan for the detainees and they could be transferred to U.S. prisons.

The move could make it more difficult for Obama to fulfill his promise to close the prison on the U.S. naval base in Cuba -- one of the most visible legacies of the former Bush administration -- by January 2010.

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The ongoing debate over the ethics and usefulness of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding received new fuel on Sunday night, with a New York Times report that two Al Qaeda suspects were subject to the method, which simulates drowning, a combined 266 times.

That number is higher than previously reported, and will no doubt cast a long shadow over President Obama's first scheduled visit to CIA headquarters today, where he will publicly address employees.

The New York Times reports that, according to a recently released May 2005 interrogation memo, Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding 83 times in August 2002.

Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, who has confessed to planning the September 11, 2001, attacks as well as personally beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was subjected to waterboarding 183 times in March 2003.

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Lawrence Summers, President Obama's top economic adviser, earned millions over the past year as managing director of the hedge fund D.E. Shaw Group and through speaking fees, some from financial institutions now at the center of the government's rescue program. Financial disclosure reports released by the White House show that Summers received $5.2 million from D.E. Shaw. He also reported payments for appearances before institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers. Overall, Summers was paid $2.7 million for more than 40 appearances before different organizations and companies, including financial institutions. (AP)

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Rick Wagoner will leave his post as CEO of bailed-out General Motors with a $20 million retirement package, the company's financial filings show.

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U.S. to kill shrubs on Mexican border
U.S. border Patrol has hatched plans to use an Agent Orange like ( the type of shit they use in Vietnam that injured a lot of U.S. Troops) chemical to poison the dense foliage on the Rio Grande ( no worry about run off) riverbank, behind which smugglers and other criminals hide on their way toand from Mexico, the Organic Health and Wellness Web site reports

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While the American International Group comes under fire from Congress over executive bonuses, it is quietly fighting the federal government for the return of $306 million in tax payments, some related to deals that were conducted through offshore tax havens.

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From TPM.com:

That'll Work
AIG CEO Edward Liddy: We'll ask the bonus recipients to give half the money back.
Late Update: If being paid a $1 a year as CEO shields Liddy from serious criticism and being held accountable, then let's pay the guy a real salary. It'd be worth a million a year of taxpayer money not to have to watch congressmen pandering to Liddy's sanctimony.

Later Update: Some more about Liddy. He was on the board of Goldman Sachs before becoming AIG's CEO. Before that, he was CEO of Allstate from 1999-2006. And this I didn't know: He was CFO under Donald Rumsfeld at Searle back in the 1980s when Rummy was CEO.

--David Kurtz

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