Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Rummy's list

The release of Rummy's List of Gitmo detainees provides more substance for critics than defense for the Bushistas. The reportage speaks eloquently:

'Experts say the list released by the US Defence Department does not include a single senior figure from Al Qaeda or other Islamic extremist groups, nor from Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime.

"It's nonsense. Guantanamo is a gigantic failure"

according to a 'leading specialist on central Asia'.

'"They are going to know absolutely nothing about terrorism - we absolutely got the wrong guys"

said 'a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unit focused on Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden'.

'The more that is learned about these prisoners, the more holes appear in (President George W Bush's) narrative of a tough and triumphant fight against Al Qaeda".

"Instead, when the full story is told, Guantanamo may come to stand as much for incompetence as it does for injustice."'

according to a spokesperson the Washington branch of Human Rights Watch.

The Australian however selectively reports the release of the names almost as if it were a type of business PR effort, without a single reference to the lack of value of the information from their interrogations or any of the human rights issues involved.

Yahoo! has created its own infamy and destroyed its own credibility as well, through its apparently ongoing and willing assistance with human rights abuse in China; a Republican congress-person in the U.S. observes

'There are probably dozens, if not hundreds of people who have been [put in prison] and tortured as a result of Yahoo opening up its e-mail servers.'

It's peculiar politics though to make these criticisms while being part of a government that basically has the same lack of due process and transparency at its own little gulags, regardless of the suspected crimes of accused detainees.

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