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Chaos Reigned in Guantanamo’s Early Days, Documents Show

By | 07.07.09 | 6:00 am

Statements declassified just before the July 4 holiday from the former commanders of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility paint an alarming picture of the camp’s early years, as interrogators’ and guards’ competence and discipline were frequently in doubt, befitting one commander’s assessment that the facility’s command was “an ad hoc More…

Retired Gen. Sanchez, Who Set the Stage for Abu Ghraib, Calls for a Torture Truth Commission

By | 06.01.09 | 12:44 pm

Via Zachary Roth at TPMmuckraker, The Huffington Post reports that retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, called for a truth commission on torture. He’s the first such Bush-era senior official or military officer who might face sanctions from such More…