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"Routine" Abuse At Bagram
Those who have cared enough to keep tabs on what the Bush administration has unleashed in terms of treatment of prisoners in the war on terror will not be surprised at the latest report from McClatchy on Bagram in Afghanistan. And the denialists - who include almost the entire GOP blogosphere - will simply turn the page. But the shame endures...

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The Shame Of Gitmo
An eight-month McClatchy investigation in 11 countries on three continents has found that Akhtiar was one of dozens of men — and, according to several officials, perhaps hundreds — whom the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments. McClatchy interviewed 66 released detainees, more than a dozen local officials — primarily in Afghanistan — and U.S. officials with intimate knowledge of the detention program. The investigation also reviewed thousands of pages of U.S. military tribunal documents and other records. This unprecedented compilation shows that most of the 66 were low-level Taliban grunts, innocent Afghan villagers or ordinary criminals.

At least seven had been working for the U.S.-backed Afghan government and had no ties to militants, according to Afghan local officials. ...