Reply #9: Steve Weissman of Truthout thinks so... [View All]

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If public pressure mounts, Washington may chuck overboard some of the CIA and military intelligence officers, along with private contractors who helped translate and interrogate. In the meantime, the Army brass is rushing to fix a prison system that is clearly collapsing, and has given the job to Major General Geoffrey D. Miller, the former detention camp commander at Guantanamo Bay.

On an earlier visit to Iraq, Gen. Miller recommended that military police guards act as "enablers" for interrogations, as Pvt. England was doing. Now, he will no doubt build "a firewall" to allow his fellow-officers to plausibly deny knowing about the seamier side of American intelligence. He might also want to ban personal cameras.

But for all the honeyed words and hurried reforms, American torture will not stop. The CIA and military intelligence will continue to hurt, humiliate, and attempt to break the prisoners they want to question, and - if they can get away with it - so will our homeland security forces, whether the FBI, a new version of Britain's MI5, or even our local police.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/050604B.shtml