{"id":677,"date":"2013-04-30T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/30\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:45","slug":"indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/04\/30\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicting the US Government for crimes against humanity \u2013 unsealing the evidence \u00ab Darker Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/4000823541\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against-humanity-unsealing-the-evidence-darker-net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/4000823541\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against-humanity-unsealing-the-evidence-darker-net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/E5KwnaEMrqmsjQSxNt8VGTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&hellip;details have been released &hellip; of a 15 month investigation by the Guardian and the BBC into torture centres in Iraq, coordinated by US Special Forces commander, James Steele, and former US General Petraeus. Add in evidence of system-wide torture and massacres in Iraq and Afghanistan as compiled by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism &hellip; with additional evidence from a number of other sources&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darkernet.in\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against-humanity-unsealing-the-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See on darkernet.in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties &hellip;details have been released &hellip; of a 15 month investigation by the Guardian and the BBC into torture centres in Iraq, coordinated by US Special Forces commander, James Steele, and former US General &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/04\/30\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1651,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/02\/a-memo-on-torture-to-john-yoo-vincent-iacopino\/","url_meta":{"origin":677,"position":0},"title":"A memo on torture to John Yoo | Vincent Iacopino | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk","author":"aslam","date":"June 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesFor starters, the US invasion of Iraq was justified, in part, on the basis of the false confession of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who, under pain of torture, confessed to knowledge of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 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