Ugly Truths About Guantanamo (washingtonpost.com)

Ugly Truths About Guantanamo (washingtonpost.com): "The International Committee of the Red Cross has complained that some of what has been done at Guantanamo -- Guantanamo, not Abu Ghraib -- was 'tantamount to torture.' The American Civil Liberties Union has complained, but that you would expect. So, though, have the FBI and military lawyers, former and current."

It is also at Guantanamo that the awful face of torture is showing it's face.
The nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General of the US shows how high the knowledge and advocacy of torture is in the US Administration.
As Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post: "Gonzales found the Geneva Conventions themselves "obsolete." Such legal brilliance does not long go unrewarded. He has been nominated to become attorney general."

The US cannot claim moral highground and at the same time use the techniques that itself criticized in such regimes as the Soviet Union, Communist China or even Cuba!

Added to this are the plans by the CIA to commit terror-suspects to life imprisonment even if they have not been tried in a court of law (Seattle Times, Washington Post).

It is outrageous to see the a country like the US do exactly the opposite of what it defends publicly, and it requires a strong condemnation from all sides of the policital spectrum!