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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.

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 07:36 AM

    Graner? What about Lyndh?

    Charles Graner is very small potatoes, and shouldn't be in jail one day longer than John Yoo or Addington, but what the hell is John Walker Lindh, who basically had no evidence against him except what they tortured out of him, doing in jail?

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