From the previous post.
" Bush said "moral clarity" would continue to be part of the U.S. arsenal, with military and other assistance provided to those who need it and criticism to those who deserve it. ...
Torture, a Ghost in Mexico's Closet
Forced Confession Highlights Obstacles to Ending Legacy of Abuse
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 2, 2002; Page A01
PACHUCA, Mexico -- Alfonso Martin del Campo Dodd stood naked in the basement of a Mexico City police station, where he said cops took turns punching him and slapping him, kicking him in the groin and screaming at him.
His sister and her husband had just been murdered in their sleep, stabbed a total of 64 times, and the police wanted Martin del Campo to confess. They waved a typewritten statement in his face and ordered him to sign it. He told them he didn't kill anybody and wasn't going to sign anything.
Then came the plastic bag.
According to Martin del Campo, whose story was corroborated under oath by an officer who was suspended for torturing him, two cops held him by the arms while another put the bag over his head. "That's one minute," he remembers the officer saying. "Next we'll do it for two minutes, then three, until you confess." They put the bag over his head again and again......
washingtonpost.com
Bush talks to Fox about immigration reform; he talks to Fox about Mexican truck drivers...but he never seems to bring up torture in Mexico. Moral clarity?
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