the abu ghraib pictures raise the question where were the doctors while this was going on either they directly witness they've given us or they witnessed the consequences of it why hadn't they protested. here the doctors were complicit they were the centerpiece of torture they were enablers they were to so it airs they will authorize years. from apocrypha eased to now the standard for the healing professions has been simple that obligation is first and foremost to the patient's interest while being torture satyrs that cover. how have american physicians and psychologists come to sanction and implement torture in our military prisons and why haven't they been held accountable for their actions. on. tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to your enemies. justice will be done. less than three weeks later u.s. forces invaded afghanistan in retaliation to the september eleventh terrorist attacks on the united states. in a radical new policy the bush administration declared afghan prisoners enemy comb

the american public does not hear much about dr involvement in detainee abuse since the abu ghraib scandal both administrations have gone to great lengths to present detainee treatment as humane. we're going to look at that and i right now we're going to treat them mainly. reacted in a circle. the press is giving tours of modern medical facilities in guantanamo and army psychologist who report on the condition of detainees make no mention of symptoms of trauma. diagnosis we see are the same ones we see in the state the main or most problem diagnosis diagnosis here are personality disorders. do you see any signs of disparate but in some of these high is. not really. make a few of them have may be. maybe a few of them. i can't i don't know really any specific details though where they have done anything. out of desperation. doctors that detention sites are divided between those who work in treatment services and those who work under the intelligence command although they too are officially set. there are many reports of doctors in the medical services supporting the programs of the intellige

it is abu ghraib. cbs knew about abu ghraib. they knew sometime prior to releasing the story. several of the other news media knew about it. i knew about it before it was late. how is it, at the corporate level -- how to balance out that we know something that we are not going to put it out up because there is this question of national security? >> this is a question of you cannot win. cbs had the story about abu ghraib. had the pictures. had it very well documented. dan rather got a call from the secretary of the army saying you cannot run that story. it is going to endanger american lives. >> for some members of the , --ence >> it was a terrible story, it was a prison in iraq that americans were running and torture was going on and pictures were taken, and american soldiers were smiling or giving the victory signal. it was just really horrible. so the military said that american lives were invaded, so we held a week. meanwhile, we were asking for spokesman from the pentagon. another appeal came the second week, so we held it. the third week we decide we're going to go with a

case, abu ghraib was a blot of the reputation of this great nation. it was an embarrassment. it showed us our worst. it outraged the muslim world as it should have. i have yet to find a senior general officer who can point a specific instance where abu ghraib put at risk for the american soldier. that was the argument they were making. it didn't happen. >> well, in the broad of things, people donate more money to al qaeda, probably. those thing happen but the direct cause of effect -- >> thom, do you think chelsea manning should not be in prison? do you think edward snowden when he comes back, shouldn't face prosecution? >> i think chelsea manning is in prison accepting the fate based on those decisions. >> for wikileaks. >> i heard so much about the snowden case, we don't know about him. snowden said he tried to work through his chain of command to bring to their attention these security flaw. the government says it is not true. likewise, we have not seen from either wikileaks stated by bob gates or yet from snowden the kind of risk to american secur

severely punished sergeant sam prevents for refusing to attract his testimony about tortures at abu ghraib i do know of military doctors who. either directly or indirectly did resist cooperating voiced their dissent and. they feel and it is i really agree with them that their careers one way or another were heard. in contrast the officers who developed and conducted the enhanced techniques program remain well protected the cia has provided doctors james mitchell and bruce jessen with a five million dollar legal defense fund in case they are charged with torturing detainees. there or we got professionals who are trained in this kind of work to get information that will protect the american people and by the way we have gotten information from these high value detainees that have no protection in two thousand and six president bush announced that the enhanced techniques provided invaluable intelligence but by then the program was so widely condemned that a high army official could publicly refute him without getting punished. you know good intelligence is going to come from abusive practices

courts for torture committed at abu ghraib prison during the iraq war the powerful new ruling overturns u.s. district judge gerald bruce lee's twenty thirteen decision to throw out a civil suit brought by four abu ghraib detainees against employees who they claim conspired with u.s. military personnel to abuse and torture them while being held in the controversial prison in two thousand and three two thousand and four judge levy had originally ruled that he lacked drizzt diction on the case because the abuse occurred in a foreign country now by her as me the legal director for the center for constitutional rights said the following of the decision quote today's court ruling affirms that u.s. corporations are not entitled to impunity for torture and war crimes and that holding us entities accountable for human rights violations strengthens this country's relationship to the international community and basic human rights principles see i can still appeal the panel's ruling all the way up to the supreme court but no word yet on if that case or the plaintiffs will finally see its court . vi

prison scandal because up until that moment us had the moral high ground but when the abu ghraib prison scandal came out and you saw americans doing all the matter of dupree eve torturing and humiliating degradation to fellow human beings that images that were reminiscent of world war two in the world's worst atrocities of germany in world war two suddenly the tables flipped they're like well the men. it's just as bad as any world war two scoundrel the whole greatest generation is a farce they're completely frickin you know profiteering scoundrels and then germany is like look those go let's go back to germany we've got the engineering excellence we've got the history we've got the social welfare system we've got the manufacturing i've got the jobs you've got the highest you know wages per hour or so they're running a roll baby germany's ready to rock n roll twenty first century and now how the u.s. has executed this empire have they have they operated it their raj system has been the central banking fees dominated system over the last forty years since post bretton woods and here's a t

torture at guantanamo bay all the others are accused of having links to the abuse of detainees at abu ghraib prison in iraq or the move comes days after america imposed a new set of sanctions on russian companies you can read all about it online right now also it. comes but pay or die that's what there's no now no room for christians and iraqi city has now found itself part of the so-called islamic state you can hear about all the ultimatums set by most schools new rules on our website. plus over two hundred lunar caves could well help the moon a cold as ation make it a bit easier task this latest study on the matter is right now at r.t. dot com. right on the scene. first rick. and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. today in the. one of the worst crashes in the history of the moscow metro shook the capital on tuesday this week three subway cars derailed after coming to an abrupt stop during the morning rush hour and more than twenty people were killed one hundred fifty taken to hospital some still in intensive care his footage shot the aftermath. i think i would hear. b

there was one not far from baghdad: saddam hussein's most-feared prison, abu ghraib.abu ghraib became the de facto boot camp for the insurgency. >> the biggest single tactical mistake was to stuff abu ghraib with tens of thousands of iraqis, who may have been neutral about the americans when they went in but weren't when they came out. >> narrator: rumsfeld also took a hard look at what paul bremer had been doing. he told bremer the defense department had decided it wanted iraq given back to the iraqis as soon as possible. >> the policy side of the pentagon was saying, "the best way to cut all of this short is simply to hand over power to some iraqis. find us some iraqis. give them authority. we'll end the occupation. we'll get out of here." >> narrator: bremer had no idea who to hand the government to. he had formed a governing council of various iraqi leaders, but had no confidence in them. >> and i told secretary wolfowitz, who was pushing this idea of early sovereignty, just handing sovereignty over, i didn't think the governing council was up to this. they couldn

torture at guantanamo bay all the others are accused of having links to the abuse of detainees at abu ghraib prison in iraq the move comes days after america imposed a new set of sanctions on russian companies you can always read much more on line at r.t. dot com and many stories for you for example convert pay or die. now no room for christians in a rocky city that's now part of the so-called islamic state can learn all about the . new rules via our website. over two hundred lunar caves. could make moon of colonization much easier now says. also. thanks for joining us here on the program one of the worst crashes in the history of the moscow metro shook the capital just on tuesday this week three subway cars derailed after coming to an abrupt stop during the morning rush hour more than twenty people were killed one hundred fifty taken to hospital still many of them in intensive care. footage now of the aftermath. here i. go. i. took emergency workers three days to remove the wreckage and carry out repairs allowing traffic on the metro line. a one eyewitness recounts the accident with horror.

which -- and they are quite close to baghdad in the south, and there have been clashes there, where abu ghraib is the huge, where the u.s. forces were seen torturing and harassing prisoners, that prison has been evacuate add couple of months ago because of how close the militants were coming so they are really pretty close to the city, the thing is that baghdad is not like -- the islamic state which is known at isis was able to take, because baghdad is quite a large shiite population and not really possible for this militia to move in quite as easily into baghdad as they did in mosul and some of the cities to the north. >> matt, we understand there have been some, some successes by government forces. what is the reality, at least the way it feels there in the streets? you know, will government forces be able to move into any of these major metropolitan areas they have lost? >> well, it doesn't look good. the military has been trying to take tikrit, which is the city that is near the hometown of saddam hussein and they have been doing that for about a week trying to push into this city, there h

for their involvement in torture at guantanamo bay and ten others for the abuse of detainees at abu ghraib prison in iraq moscow's blacklist was released two days after the u.s. imposed a new set of sanctions against russian companies. we have more details on that tit for tat measures on our website as well as background on how the ukraine crisis sparked the dispute had to r.t. dot com all the updates. on. and israeli man was killed in the south of the country on saturday by a rocket fired from gaza he is the third israeli fatal a t since the start of the current conflict which is claimed the lives of three hundred thirty palestinians meanwhile there was a tank a machine gun fire on the border this morning as the israeli army stepped up its ground operation gaza hospitals are struggling to cope with the influx of injured civilians. was. the work of the body that's been going. through a little. was. was . the. israel's ground offensive is now into its second day targeting cross border smuggling tunnels used by hamas while the stated goal is to destroy militant capability it's palestinian ci

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administration i recall that are george bush was being held responsible for rogue prieght privates in abu ghraib. this was a case where people are going to give barack obama a pass and roll over and just say who -- [simultaneous speech] >> who is giving him a pass? turn on any television [simultaneous speech] >> engage in this problem. and tonight is [simultaneous speech] >> it is an issue [simultaneous speech] [simultaneous speech] [simultaneous speech] [simultaneous speech] [simultaneous speech] >> so pathetic and so much inertia built into it [simultaneous speech] >> guys, let me move on because i want to talk israel. as i mentioned earlier in the show, philipp gordon a special assistant to president obama and white house coordinator, that israel recognizes an undeniable reality, doing so is not only wrong but a recipe for resentment and recurring stability. rick, start with you. is the administration taking the right position here? or is it a misstep by the administration, not clearly supporting its allies? >> i would say at the very minimum it calls into question their ability to recognize

richard butler and lindy england, the former soldier who was convicted of abusing prisoners in the abu ghraib prisoner were two others. >> as the fighting continues in iraq, the united nations is stepping in. why they're asking for help in protecting opposition members. >> there are growing calls today for more answers in the shootdown of malaysia flight 17. that outrage as more evidence, new evidence surfaces that links russia to this disaster but can investigators get answers in that war zone. >> and a masstive wildfire forcing hundreds of people to from their homes in one western state. and belly pain feel like a knot. how can i ease this pain? (man) when i can't go, it's like bricks piling up. i wish i could find some relief. (announcer) ask your doctor about linzess-- a once-daily capsule for adults with ibs with constipation or chronic idiopathic constipation. linzess is thought to help calm pain-sensing nerves and accelerate bowel movements. it helps you proactively manage your symptoms. do not give linzess to children under 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to 17. it may har

iraqi prisoners who say they were tortured with sexual violence, electrical shocks, and beatings at abu ghraib prison. the lawsuit accuses employees of the private military contractor caci international of ordering military staff to torture prisoners in order to weaken them for questioning. a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit last year, saying he did not have jurisdiction. but monday's decision reinstates the suit and sends it back to that judge. general motors is recalling another 8.4 million vehicles, most of them for ignition switch problems that can lead cars to suddenly shut down. gm says the vehicles have been involved in at least three deaths. in total, gm has now recalled more than 29 million vehicles in north america this year, more than the entire he industry last year. earlier on monday, kenneth tonberg, who was hired by gm handle victim compensation, said the company would pay at least $1 million for each person who died as a result of the previous ignition switch flaw tied to at least 13 and perhaps hundreds of deaths. in chile, court has ruled that u.s. military intelligence se

congressman and 12 other americans in connection with guantanamo and abu ghraib.sman jim month ran, a democrat of virginia is not allowed to set foot in russia. in response to ais ban of a russian parliament number. and the other a commander and a former soldier convicted in iraq. russia said the bans are in reaction to the u.s. adding 12 names to the list of bans from the united states over human rights accusations. >>> tearful memories from the grandfather of the only american we know on board the malaysia flight 17. quinn schansman had dual american-dutch citizenship. he was on the way to meet family. we caught up with schansman's grandfather who was here in the u.s. when he got word. >> you just hope that none of your children or your grandchildren will go before you. and now i said it. it is the first time it's happened to family. >> reporter: ronald schansman is tearful and heartbroken, after learning his family is one of many tragically touched by the downed malaysia airlines flight brought down. his grandson quinn was killed and the only american on board.