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Sympathy for Charles Graner

No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 06:02 AM

    @David Bird

    Does he really find himself in the position as those he tortured? He is being stripped naked and humiliated? I doubt it.

    Did you read the article? Every time he has visitors at Leavenworth he's strip-searched afterwards, even though he can only see visitors in a glass and steel enclosed booth and speak through a phone with a guard sitting a few feet away from him, so there's absolutely no chance that anyone can even touch him, let alone pass him any contraband. His mother wasn't even permitted to give him a hug on Christmas Eve.

    And let's not forget that strip searches often include body cavity searches as well.

    I'd say repeated instances of unreasonable and unnecessary strip searches count as a form of humiliation and degradation, but apparently you operate under a different ethical code than I do.

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