| The tactics the president denounced were precisely those he had authorized and encouraged in the growing network of secret prisons around the world. Detainees, many of them innocent, have been held for months and years without charges, without lawyers, without notification to their families, tortured for weeks and months at a time. Bush's response to Abu Ghraib was not to stop torture, but to try to hide it more effectively. |
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