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A new Senate report says the physical and mental abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base was the direct result of Bush administration policies and should not be blamed on guards and interrogators.
The report from the Senate Armed Services Committee is the result of a two-year investigation. It directly links President Bush's policies after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, legal memos on torture and interrogation rule changes with the abuse that was photographed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq four years ago.
The report says administration officials publicly blamed the abuses on low-level soldiers but called that ''both unconscionable and false.''
The end of this Presidency is long overdue. We can only hope that there will be some sort of accounting for these abuses of power. I'm not holding my breath, but I think all of this has to put out in the open if we want to ensure this never happens again. If we just sweep it under the rug with phony talk about only wanting to look to the future, it WILL happen again.
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