Helping The Chinese Torture

U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men -- or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report.

Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there. --ABCNews.com

Wow, helping the Chinese torture. We've come a long way baby... Just 8 short years ago we were totally against torture. We constantly harassed the Chinese about their torturing dissidents and now... They grow up so fast. John Yoo must be so proud. Not to mention the members of our armed forces who did the actual "softening up", they must be proud of their service and the uniforms they wear. God Bless America.

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Architect Of An Actual Torture Regime

Greenwald posts about John Yoo over at his blog at Salon, asking whether Yoo was a Spearhead or Scapegoat. He mentions that the question arises exactly what did he do that would justify firing him from Berkeley Law School? He says:

Some of those commentators argue -- persuasively -- that mere citation to "academic freedom" does not resolve the question, since Yoo is charged not merely with advocating repellent ideas (something that should never result in dismissal), but far beyond that, was acting as an architect of an actual torture regime. --John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?

That sounds about right to me. Quite an accomplishment.

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