What we now know: Leaked Documents Summary: 1. There is an official policy to ignore torture in Iraq. 2. There is an official tally of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. 3. Guantanamo prison has held mostly innocent people and low-level operatives. 4. The State Department authorized the theft of the UN Secretary General’s DNA. 5. The U.S. Government withheld information about the indiscriminate killing of Reuters journalists and innocent Iraqi civilians. 6. The State Department backed corporate opposition to a Haitian minimum wage law. 7. The U.S. Government had long been faking its public support for Tunisian President Ben Ali. 8. U.S. officials were told to cover up evidence of child abuse by contractors in Afghanistan. 9. The Japanese and U.S. Governments had been warned about the seismic threat at Fukushima. 10. The Obama Administration allowed Yemen’s President to cover up a secret U.S. drone bombing campaign. 11. Known Egyptian torturers received training from the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. 12.The person who told us about these policies, Bradley Manning, faces a century in prison. The people who created these policies appear on talk shows and the lecture circuit, or remain in office. 13. Our press prefers to discuss the ethics of disclosing these policies, rather than the ethics of the policies themselves.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:16:05 +0000
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