Britain's bizarre reaction to war crimes allegations: investigations needed - Glenn Greenwald »
Posted By berkeley 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsBinyam Mohamed is the British resident who, two weeks ago, was released from Guantanamo and returned to Britain after seven years of detention, often in brutal conditions. Since his return, compelling evidence has been steadily emerging that British agents were knowingly complicit in Mohamed's torture while in U.S. custody -- including the discovery of telegrams sent by British intelligence officers to the CIA asking the CIA to extract information from him. How does a country with a minimally healthy political class and a pretense to the rule of law react to such allegations of criminality?
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"Investigations needed" Greenwald pleads in nearly every post for journalists to do their job...and he seems more and more frustrated at their incompetence. An update at the end of his piece sums it up:
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"It is something of an upside down world wherein journalists, as a class, comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted, and see nothing odd about this. At times I've wondered whether Watergate would have even been discovered by the mindless media we have today, but even worse, whether they all would have just explained it away."
This is apparent to anyone who just watched the incredibly feeble David Gregory on Meet the Press this morning.
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