Uppity Wisconsin

Update: Padilla Guilty on All Conspiracy Counts

Update: Verdict Reached in Padilla
Case; to be read at 1:00 Central.[- with thanks to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library reference department -]

Warren Richey’s three-part series in the Christian Science Monitor shines a light on the tyranny and inhumanity of the Bush regime—functioning with the passive compliance and active participation of assorted generals, admirals, prison guards, flacks, hacks and flunkies and one U.S. District Judge, Marcia G. Cooke.

Reading Richey’s work is an experience, an endurance exercise in revulsion and anger at all—and that ought to include us—who let this obscenity occur in our country, in our names.

Links to the series:

US terror interrogation went too far, experts say; Reports find that Jose Padilla's solitary confinement led to mental problems.

Investigators broke Padilla with intense isolation; Despite warnings, officials used 43 months of severe isolation to force Jose Padilla to tell all he knew about Al Qaeda.

Beyond Padilla terror case, huge legal issues; His detention and interrogation in the US raises basic constitutional questions.

Editorial - A verdict on Padilla – and the USA; Monitor series reveals the damage done to a citizen's rights and thus the US ability to wage this war.