The Mahablog: Today's Torture News!

Some blabbermouth in the UN revealed that the US has admitted to acts of torture in the Guantanamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq "detention facilities." I was excited until I read further into this article--

"They haven't avoided anything in their answers, whether concerning prisoners in Iraq, in Afghanistan or Guantanamo, and other accusations of mistreatment and of torture," the Committee member said.

"They said it was a question of isolated cases, that there was nothing systematic and that the guilty were in the process of being punished."

The US report said that those involved were low-ranking members of the military and that their acts were not approved by their superiors, the member added.

Yeah, right.