The 21st Centuries first Tyrant This story from the LA Times found thanks to Hesiod is simply outrageous -- along with the torture, it shows the Bush Administration to be the head of less a western democracy than a tin-horn third-world dictatorship. CIA May Have Had a Role in Hiding Iraqi Prisoners The CIA is seeking to determine whether its operatives had a role in the imprisonment of so-called ghost detainees, Iraqi prisoners who were held without names, charges or other documentation at U.S.-run detention facilities across their homeland, intelligence officials said Tuesday. A little-noticed portion of the military's classified report on the abuse of prisoners in Iraq says that a number of jails operated by the 800th Military Police Brigade "routinely held" such prisoners "without accounting for them, knowing their identities, or even the reason for their detention." In one case, the report says, U.S. military police at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad shifted six to eight undocumented prisoners "around within the facility to hide them" from a visiting delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross. "This maneuver was deceptive, contrary to Army Doctrine and in violation of international law," the report adds. Human rights groups said the practice of keeping prisoners off written lists and physically concealing them from humanitarian aid groups and independent monitors has been well known over the years in dictatorships from Guatemala to Sudan. ... Under the Geneva Convention, the Geneva-based Red Cross is entitled to unrestricted access to every part of military-run detention facilities in Iraq and has the right to interview every prisoner of war and detainee without an outside witness, experts said. This is the final straw on the Clusterfuckery in my book. If the CIA did this and George Bush had EVEN a sniff that we were doing what along with torture is the worst of what dictatorships do then... CHIMPEACH!!! CHIMPEACH!!! CHIMPEACH!!! And then ship 'em off to the Hague.