{"id":186677,"date":"2013-11-20T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/20\/once-again-eric-arthur-blair-is-spinning-in-his-grave\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:27:00","slug":"once-again-eric-arthur-blair-is-spinning-in-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/20\/once-again-eric-arthur-blair-is-spinning-in-his-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, Eric Arthur Blair* is Spinning in His Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what, the US Government is now saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20131114\/18010025251\/us-government-says-cia-black-site-prisoners-memory-their-own-torture-is-classified-cannot-be-revealed.shtml\">prisoners own memories of their torture are secret, and so cannot be revealed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I&#8217;d missed this story when it came out a few weeks ago, but thanks to  Rob Hyndman for calling it to my attention.  There was plenty of press  around the fact that one of the guys being held by US forces in  Guantanamo, and who faces trial as one of the co-conspirators for 9\/11,  supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/10\/23\/3706509\/guantanamo-war-court-hearing-torture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustained head injuries<\/a>  while being held by the CIA.  But, that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg  of the story.  Apparently Ammar al Baluchi, and some of the other  prisoners are trying to argue that the US violated the UN Convention  Against Torture with how they treated prisoners at the infamous black  sites.  But here&#8217;s the crazy part: the US is arguing that the prisoners&#8217;  own recollections of what was done to them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/10\/22\/3704653\/guantanamo-defense-attorneys-want.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cannot be used in court, because it would reveal classified information<\/a>.  Talk about adding insult to injury. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worst Constitutional Law Professor ever.<sup>\u2122<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> George Orwell.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what, the US Government is now saying that prisoners own memories of their torture are secret, and so cannot be revealed: I&#8217;d missed this story when it came out a few weeks ago, but thanks to Rob Hyndman for calling it to my attention. There was plenty of press around the fact that one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1032,969,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}