{"id":1619913,"date":"2024-04-19T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9039232"},"modified":"2024-04-19T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:06:22","slug":"baher-azmy-on-abu-ghraib-lawsuit-dave-lindorff-on-spy-for-no-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/19\/baher-azmy-on-abu-ghraib-lawsuit-dave-lindorff-on-spy-for-no-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week on CounterSpin<\/strong>: The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees during the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia, with Al-Shimari v. CACI<\/em>. Since the case was first filed in 2008, military contractor CACI has pushed some 20 times to have it dismissed.<\/p>\n

Time<\/strong> magazine unwittingly told the tale with the recent headline: \u201cAbu Ghraib Military Contractor Trial Set to Start 20 Years after Shocking Images of Abuse.\u201d That\u2019s the thing, people had been reporting the horrific treatment of Iraqi detainees at the Baghdad-area prison and elsewhere, but it was only when those photos were released\u2014photos the Defense Department tried hard to suppress\u2014that it was so undeniable it had to be acknowledged.<\/p>\n

But still: When Australian TV later broadcast new unseen images, the Washington Post<\/strong> officially sighed<\/a> that they weren\u2019t worth running because they did not depict “previously unknown” abuse. Post<\/strong> executive editor Len Downie had a different answer<\/a>, saying in an online chat that the images were \u201cso shocking and in such bad taste, especially the extensive nudity, that they are not publishable in our newspaper.\u201d Because that what officially sanctioned torture is, above all, right? Distasteful.<\/p>\n

We got a reading on the case last year from Baher Azmy, legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights.<\/p>\n

Transcript:<\/strong> \u2018CACI Aided and Abetted the Torture of Our Clients\u2019<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240419Azmy.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Prometheus Books<\/strong> (2024<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Also on the show: Historians tell us that the Cold War is over, but the framing persists in news media that love a simple good guy vs. bad guy story, even as who the good and the bad guys are shifts over time. Telling history through actual human beings makes it harder to come up with slam-dunk answers, but can raise questions that are ultimately more useful for those seeking a peaceful planet. A new book provides a sort of case study; it\u2019s about Ted Hall, who, as a young man, shared nuclear secrets from Los Alamos with the then\u2013Soviet Union. Veteran investigative journalist Dave Lindorff has reported for numerous outlets and is author of Marketplace Medicine<\/em> and This Can\u2019t Be Happening<\/em>, among other titles. We talked with him about his latest, Spy for No Country:<\/a> The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World<\/em>, which is out now from Prometheus Books<\/strong>.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240419Lindorff.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.<\/p>\n

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