'For myself, the very worst moment came when I realised in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence.

'I have met with British intelligence in Pakistan. I had been open with them. Yet the very people who I had hoped would come to my rescue, I later realised, had allied themselves with my abusers.'

Guantanamo Briton arrives home and vows to expose UK's role in his torture

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1152505/Guantanamo-Briton-arrives-home-vows-expose-UKs-role-torture.html

From The Center for Constitutional Rights:

Nor could detainees rely on their home governments to help secure their release. Virtually all respondents reported that they met with officials from their native countries while they were in the camp, many within weeks of arrival. Some respondents felt their governments were not interested in their claims of innocence or in exerting pressure to secure their release.

One former detainee described his feelings after meeting an intelligence officer sent by his government:

He said to me that everything I had told him was a lie, and that I was going to spend the rest of my life in Guantánamo. And this was within 48 hours of my arrival there.… To hear it from American authorities, it’s different. You still have some hope. But then to hear it from your own government, knowing that you’ve done nothing wrong, it was, it was really hard.

Guantanamo and its Aftermath, Center for Constitutional Rights, November 2008

http://ccrjustice.org/files/Report_GTMO_And_Its_Aftermath.pdf

From The Daily Howler:

Special report: Ryan’s rerun!

PART 1—STILL AT HIS FEET: In the February 25 New Yorker, Ryan Lizza reported the scene on John McCain’s bus. Here’s how the young “rising star in our business” started his report:

LIZZA (2/25/08): John McCain’s campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, has had many incarnations.

By our count, it took Lizza exactly five words to start repeating McCain’s slogans for him.

Lizza’s most troubling statement—the statement that McCain “won over reporters”—has produced little mention within the mainstream press, or anywhere else for that matter.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh040108.shtml

"[...] But this is the low-IQ culture which has driven this cohort for decades. Simply put, this group is as dumb as a box of old rocks. Within our wider culture, it’s considered rude to say such things. But this cohort’s dumbness has been a threat to the national interest for decades. [...] But this group, simply put, is out of its mind—and they’re in charge of your national discourse! And oh yes—the fast-emerging liberal world is increasingly adopting their spin-soaked culture (more perfect examples tomorrow). We regard this fact as a real disaster for the land where we rubes all live. [...]"

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh022309.shtml

Yes...sick,sick,sick...but she STILL has this giant magaphone! Why?

It's truly unbelievable.

that the post is about Ryan Lizza and the rest of the "royal court spokespeople", who are not doing their jobs as journalists; and how that abdication is dangerous for the US.

Great coinage!

Well, I guess if someone doesn't apprehend the true culprit, they will be reduced to burning the straw man, instead.

Of course, I'm not in charge, but I never mind if your comments are OT, because they're always important. Thanks, again.

I read your comment the other night, and did actually feel, like RMP just said, that you could be right...the tide may be turning.

That's too funny, Jebbie!

I read some of those stories about Saddiqui. I came away with the impression that her ex-husband [father of her 3 children] was also named by KSM as a terrorist, and was arrested [in Afghanistan, or was that Pakistan?] at about the same time she was. His name is Mohammed Khan...is that right? He was evidently released relatively quickly by the Intelligence service of whatever country he was arrested in. Do I recall correctly that he is now a Doctor in Kabul?

It seems like there is a tremendous amount of animosity between him an Aafia's family.

Something smells very fishy, imo.

Thanks for clarifying that. After I had read a couple of articles, most with a definite slant toward the husband [who is, after all, not incarcerated at the moment and therefore more accesible for interviews], I just couldn't keep things straight.

That "City Room" Blog post you linked to earlier is just pathetic...more journlistic stenography, as far as I'm concerned.