A list of things considered asymmetric warfare by the US military

[Cain]

As you may remember, in 2006, it was declared that prisoners at Gimto who committed suicide were committing acts of asymmetric warfare against the United States, the fiends.

At the time, others commented that, plausibly then, these below must also be considered asymmetric warfare against the USA and its national interests.

1. Crying
2. Begging for Mercy
3. Getting Tuberculosis
4. Forcing Us To Torture Them
5. Not Being A Terrorist
6. Being Four Years Old

However, ladies and gentlemen, we have discovered in this past week a new and even more pernicious tactic that is being used to undermine the safety of western civilization.  This foul technique is...

7. Not committing suicide.

A major new report from Seton Hall University School of Law released this morning raises serious doubts about both the military's version of events and the reliability of its investigation.  The Report details that the three men "died under questionable circumstances"; that "the investigation into their deaths resulted in more questions than answers"; and that "without a proper investigation, it is impossible to determine the circumstances of the three detainees' deaths."  The 54-page, heavily-documented Report raises numerous troubling questions, as illustrated by these (click to enlarge)

There is one way that a meaningful investigation could be conducted into what happened to these three detainees:  a lawsuit filed in federal court by the parents of two of the detainees against various Bush officials for the torture and deaths of their sons -- who had never been charged with, let alone convicted of, any wrongdoing (indeed, one had been cleared for release).  By itself, discovery in that lawsuit would shed critical light on what was done to these detainees and what caused their deaths.

The problem, however, is that the Obama DOJ has been using every Bush tactic -- and inventing whole new ones -- to block the lawsuit from proceeding.  As The Washington Independent's Daphne Eviatar detailed in October, "the Obama administration has surprisingly endorsed the same legal positions as its predecessor, insisting that there is no constitutional right to humane treatment by U.S. authorities outside the United States, and that victims of torture and abuse and their survivors have no right to compensation or even an acknowledgment of what occurred." 

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Iason Ouabache]

I <3 Daphne Eviatar. She seems to be the only person actually covering this stuff. She's uncovered quite a bit of nasty shit too. It pisses me off that Obama is still covering up Bush's approval of torture.

[Requia ☣]

Wait

They found bodies hung with their hands and feet tied together and claimed it was really a suicide?  Three times?

Holy shit