From the Law Office of H. Candace Gorman
From The Guardian:
Abu Zubaydah, whose full name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, is a stateless Palestinian who grew up in Saudi Arabia. He was one of the first detainees in the US “war on terror” to be tortured, and was subjected to a full range of what the Bush administration at the time termed “enhanced interrogation techniques”, in secret prisons in Thailand, Lithuania, Poland, Afghanistan, Morocco, and then the US base at Guantánamo Bay, on Cuba’s southern coast.
Now 54, he has been held in Guantánamo Bay without charge ever since, becoming one of its “forever prisoners”.
Abu Zubaydah was first seized in a sweep of suspected militants in Pakistan in March 2002. The US initially claimed he was a high-ranking member of al-Qaida, but has since dropped that claim, and now no longer alleges that he was even a member of the organisation.
According to a US Senate investigation into the CIA’s use of torture and other inquiries into the use of torture, Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a single month, locked for more than 11 days in a coffin-sized box and left to lie in his own urine and faeces, stripped naked and beaten, suspended from hooks just above the floor, and kept awake for seven consecutive days and doused with cold water whenever he lost consciousness.
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Not much else to say about what is going on. The question is, how do we put the brakes on this?
Right now I do not have the answer to that question. I think once again we are going to have to rely on our Courts to stop these madmen but that would be easier done if we had a Supreme Court that was not helping trump and his henchmen. If one or two more republican congressional representatives were to leave office then the democrats could at least take over the house of representatives. Unfortunately, in our system - with the republicans controlling the house of representatives, the senate and the Supreme Court- we are in a dark place.
stay tuned....
Well music is great for the soul but we have a lot of work to do this year.
Not just to keep the lunatic in check but to try to salvage our democracy and maybe even make it better and stronger.
So start by watching the deposition of Jack Smith. The special prosecutor who tried to hold the criminal president accountable. Take your time. Watch it in bits and pieces! Jim Jordan, the committee chair for the judiciary committee, a man who could not even pass the bar exam held off on releasing the video until new years eve- hoping people wouldn't know or watch.
But if you do not have time to watch the hole video. Here are the CLIF notes!