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Crackdowns are hard. They're merciless. America operates that way. Harshness is longstanding. International, constitutional, and US statute laws are spurned. Unaccountability follows.
Carlos Warner represents several prisoners. He accused the Pentagon of "escalating the conflict." He said so for good reason. Barbarism is official policy.
General Geoffrey Miller ran Guantanamo from November 2002 until April 2004. He then was in charge of Abu Ghraib and other Iraq torture prisons. He stayed in command until his 2006 retirement.
He was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal (DDSM). In 1970, Nixon's Executive Order established it. It's America's highest non-combat award.
It's largely for senior officers "whose exceptional performance of duty and contributions to national security or defense have been at the highest levels."
Washington considers crimes of war, against humanity, genocide, torture, and other forms of abuse "distinguished" service. So do Nobel committee members.
War criminals are rewarded. Obama became the fourth US presidential recipient. He's by far the worst. Nobel committee members praised his efforts to strengthen "democracy and human rights."
He's waging war on humanity. His promise to close Guantanamo was broken. He's fully responsible for America's global torture prison system.
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