Army’s Iraq Handbook: Avoid War Crimes And Beware Arab Paranoia
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 1st, 2010 5:44 am by HL
Army’s Iraq Handbook: Avoid War Crimes And Beware Arab Paranoia
A 2003 handbook for the U.S. First Infantry Division in Iraq exhorts soldiers to “Do your best to prevent war crimes” and warns that “when an Arab is confronted by criticism, you can expect him to react by interpreting the facts to suit himself or flatly denying the facts.”
John Sweeney Jailed For Drunk Driving
John Sweeney, the former GOP congressman and Abramoff crony, will serve 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to driving drunk, reports the Albany Times-Union.
Former DOJ-ers Doubtful On Missing Yoo Emails Story
An internal Justice Department report on the Torture Memos noted that investigators were told that key emails from John Yoo had been deleted and could not be retrieved. But several former DOJ staffers expressed intense skepticism that the emails could in fact have been rendered unrecoverable — at least without a deliberate effort to destroy them.
