Annie
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You mean that some of the folks reporting 'abuse' might have another agenda, that is being ignored? Like perhaps some of those released and reporting abuse, might in fact be terrorists, reporting what they know groups like UN, Amnesty Now, etc., like to hear?Well I have read on the subject ad nauseum mostly because I was drafted to teach a class on it to some very well educated people--I didn't want to look like an idiot using flawed data. If you actually read all that stuff you Google up, you'll find the same tired stories using the same flawed reports repeated over and over and over, but trotted out each time as if they are new revelations. If you can get a few dozen active blogs to use the same phrases--and believe me this is a standard tactic--and add in sensationalist headlines from the mainstream media, you can also get those kinds of stories to rise to the surface and pretty well bury most of the more objective and honest accounts.
Meanwhile people without a political agenda have not substantiated the stories. As in any human organization, you're going to find a bad egg or two who steps over the line and commits the unacceptable. In every case this has been found, however, we have conducted a thorough investigation and have taken appropriate counter measures.
We are not torturing and/or abusing prisoners either as policy or in practice. We treat them very very well. It is fairly safe to believe that given a choice of serving time in one of our military prisons or anyplace else on Earth, most would want to be in one of our facilities.