{"id":1183289,"date":"2023-08-18T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9035020"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:55:32","slug":"baher-azmy-on-abu-ghraib-torture-lawsuit-thomas-germain-on-online-history-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/18\/baher-azmy-on-abu-ghraib-torture-lawsuit-thomas-germain-on-online-history-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin230818.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin230818.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMwODE4Lm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9035025\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9035025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9035025\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Abu-Ghraib-Featured-350x182.jpg\" alt=\"Victim of US torture at Abu Ghraib\" width=\"350\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Abu-Ghraib-Featured-350x182.jpg 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Abu-Ghraib-Featured-600x312.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Abu-Ghraib-Featured-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Abu-Ghraib-Featured.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9035025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Victim of US torture at Abu Ghraib, 2003<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: For corporate news media, every mention of the Iraq War is a chance to fuzz up or rewrite history a little more. This year, the <strong>New York Times<\/strong> honored the war\u2019s anniversary with a friendly piece about how George W. Bush \u201cdoesn\u2019t second guess himself on Iraq,\u201d despite pesky people mentioning things like the torture of innocent prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema has just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/virginia\/articles\/2023-08-01\/judge-rejects-military-contractors-effort-to-toss-out-abu-ghraib-torture-lawsuit\">refused to dismiss<\/a> a long standing case brought against Abu Ghraib torturers for hire, the company known as CACI.\u00a0 Unlike elite media\u2019s misty memories, the case is a real-world, stubborn indication that what happened happened and those responsible have yet to be called to account. We can call the case, abstractly, &#8220;anti-torture&#8221; or &#8220;anti-war machine,&#8221; as though it were a litmus test on those things; but we can\u2019t forget that it\u2019s <i>pro<\/i>\u2013Suhail al-Shimari, <i>pro<\/i>\u2013Salah al-Ejaili,\u00a0\u00a0 <i>pro\u2013 <\/i>all the other human beings horrifically abused in that prison in our name.\u00a0 We get an update on the still-ongoing case\u2014despite some 18 attempts to dismiss it\u2014from Baher Azmy, legal director at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrjustice.org\/abu-ghraib-trial\">Center for Constitutional Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_1\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_1\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_1\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_1\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin230818Azmy.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_1\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_1\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin230818Azmy.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMwODE4QXpteS5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[1] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9035027\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gizmodo-CNET.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9035027\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9035027\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gizmodo-CNET-350x285.png\" alt=\"Gizmodo: CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search\" width=\"184\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gizmodo-CNET-350x285.png 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gizmodo-CNET-600x488.png 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gizmodo-CNET-768x625.png 768w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gizmodo-CNET-640x521.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gizmodo-CNET.png 832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9035027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Gizmodo<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/cnet-deletes-thousands-old-articles-google-search-seo-1850721475\">8\/9\/23<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also on the show: The internet? Am i right? Thomas Germain is senior reporter at <strong>Gizmodo<\/strong>; he fills us in on some new developments in the online world most of us, like it or not, live in and rely on. Developments to do with ads, ads and still more ads, and also with the <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/cnet-deletes-thousands-old-articles-google-search-seo-1850721475\">disappearing and potential disappearing<\/a> of decades of archived information and reporting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_2\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_2\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_2\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_2\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin230818Germain.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_2\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_2\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin230818Germain.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMwODE4R2VybWFpbi5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[2] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/baher-azmy-on-abu-ghraib-torture-lawsuit-thomas-germain-on-online-history-destruction\/\">Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike elite media\u2019s misty memories, the lawsuit is a stubborn indication that those responsible for Abu Ghraib haven&#8217;t been called to account.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/baher-azmy-on-abu-ghraib-torture-lawsuit-thomas-germain-on-online-history-destruction\/\">Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,259,732,192,438,262,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183289"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342860,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183289\/revisions\/1342860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}