WHAT HAVE WE BECOME
The most devastating realization is that it is so readily believable and accruable to the woebegone G. Walker administration and their execrable undertakings in defiance of the Constitution and the rule of law.
He was held in a brig at the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, South Carolina for three years and seven months, without charge, before being abruptly transferred to a federal lock-up in Miami and brought into the official legal system.
While in the brig, Padilla was ‘tortured by the United States government without cause or justification,’ his lawyers said, adding that his treatment was ’shocking to even the most hardened conscience.’
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…the allegation that Padilla was forced to consume mind altering drugs — reminiscent of CIA-financed mind-control experiments in the late 1950s — appeared to be one of the first such accusations in connection with Washington’s war on terrorism.
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The Bush administration dropped an ‘enemy combatant’ designation against Padilla last year, charging him instead with being part of a North American support cell for global Islamic extremism.
The charges against Padilla, a convert to Islam whom prosecutors said attended an al Qaeda training camp, were added to an existing case against four other men charged in Florida. Article
