Democracy Now!
With Amy Goodman
"Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal formerly served as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008. During that time, he oversaw a secretive program to hunt down and assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. Last year, lawmakers delayed Stanley McChrystal’s nomination for a key position because of questions about prisoner abuse by forces under his command. Many of the reports of abuse center on Camp Nama, a US base near Baghdad’s airport where Special Operations troops ran an interrogation and detention center.....
For more we are joined on the telephone by Marc Garlasco. He"s a former intelligence and targeting analyst at the Pentagon and now the senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch. He co-wrote a report in July 2006 titled “No Blood, No Foul” that documented abuses at Camp Nama. In that report, a U.S. military interrogator is quoted as saying that he had seen McChrystal visit the center “a couple of times.” The interrogator, given the pseudonym “Jeff” in the report, also said he was told by the colonel in charge that he knew “directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon” that the Red Cross would not be allowed to inspect the center.....
We’re also joined here in the firehouse studio by Tom Engelhardt. He’s the creator and editor of Tomdispatch.com, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a fellow....."
With Amy Goodman
"Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal formerly served as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008. During that time, he oversaw a secretive program to hunt down and assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. Last year, lawmakers delayed Stanley McChrystal’s nomination for a key position because of questions about prisoner abuse by forces under his command. Many of the reports of abuse center on Camp Nama, a US base near Baghdad’s airport where Special Operations troops ran an interrogation and detention center.....
For more we are joined on the telephone by Marc Garlasco. He"s a former intelligence and targeting analyst at the Pentagon and now the senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch. He co-wrote a report in July 2006 titled “No Blood, No Foul” that documented abuses at Camp Nama. In that report, a U.S. military interrogator is quoted as saying that he had seen McChrystal visit the center “a couple of times.” The interrogator, given the pseudonym “Jeff” in the report, also said he was told by the colonel in charge that he knew “directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon” that the Red Cross would not be allowed to inspect the center.....
We’re also joined here in the firehouse studio by Tom Engelhardt. He’s the creator and editor of Tomdispatch.com, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a fellow....."
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