http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10359

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For the past year and a half, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,
USA Today, Newsday, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian
Science Monitor and other leading newspapers have repeatedly quoted unnamed
U.S. intelligence officials boasting about the use of torture and other ill
treatment of prisoners. Numerous detainees have been killed or attempted
suicide in custody in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, prompting
unprecedented expressions of concern by the International Committee of the
Red Cross; suspects have been turned over to the foreign intelligence
services of countries, such as Syria, with records of brutal torture; the
ICRC has also specifically expressed concern about conditions at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq; and now, the U.S. military's own inquiry has found "systemic
and illegal abuse of detainees" at Abu Ghraib.

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This pattern of conduct has caused extraordinary damage to the cause of
human rights around the world, as well as to the United States and to its
ability to conduct foreign policy successfully, from Iraq to the global
campaign against terrorism.