US says Manning leak hurt human rights work

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10. Weasel Speak. Human Rights Workers = Agents trained at the School of the Americas, now

known as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), who infiltrate other countries in order to promote the interests of the 1% and keep wealthy private interests safe from democracy.

The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as[1][2] the US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries.

The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War.[3] In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum.[4][5] In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed to WHINSEC.[6][7]:233
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According to the Center for International Policy, "The School of the Americas had been questioned for years, as it trained many military personnel before and during the years of the 'national security doctrine' – the dirty war years in the Southern Cone and the civil war years in Central America – in which the armed forces within several Latin American countries ruled or had disproportionate government influence and committed serious human rights violations in those countries."[citation needed] SOA and WHINSEC graduates continue to surface in news reports regarding both current human rights cases and new reports.

Defenders argue that today the curriculum includes human rights,[32] but according to Human Rights Watch, "training alone, even when it includes human rights instruction, does not prevent human rights abuses."[30]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation