This morning Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn broke the news that Obama plans to resume US funding for Indonesia’s military death squads. Nairn describes how the death squads that once terorrized occupied Timor are up and running – and killing – peaceful opponents to Indonesia rule in Papua and elsewhere. Change? Last year Obama chose Admiral Dennis Blair – who had defied the chain of command and civilian authority to keep funding Indonesia’s death squads in Timor. At least Obama’s consistent: his Attorney General left the DOJ for a white shoe law firm where he successfully protected Chiquita’s CEO’s from responsiblity for paying for and running guns to Central American death squads. Change we can bloody well believe in, no?
Change you can bloody well believe in: will Obama start funding Indonesia’s death squads? |
| By: Kirk Murphy Friday March 19, 2010 3:57 pm |
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The Faces of Torturers: Cofer Black and Jose Rodriguez |
| By: Jim White Wednesday August 26, 2009 2:00 pm |
(Promoted by jasonrosenbaum - These faces deserve more notice.)
The CIA OIG report indicates that torture was carried out needlessly based on sloppy assumptions by the Counterterrorism Center on what a prisoner “might or should know”.
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