According to the website Raw Story, the Obama administration has reacted the the UK High Court decision (stayed pending appeal) to publish details of the torture inflicted on former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, and Obamaphiles will thre response hard to stomach: Meanwhile, US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said: "We are not pleased", adding that Washington kept such information confidential "to protect our own citizens." How exactly does it protect US citizens to be shielded from the information that CIA agents used scalpels on an illegally rendered prisoner's testicles? Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald continues to follow this story. A Contrarian reader points to this...

20 October, 2009