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[โ€“] Lawliss@midwest.social 104 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This cunt talks about Iraq like he did something there. He was a fucking lawyer ๐Ÿ˜‚.

[โ€“] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 105 points 1 year ago

Posing as a human rights lawyer and illegally aiding in the torture of POWs at Guantanamo is the best way of forming a valid opinion on Iraq!

[โ€“] o_0@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

didn't he torture people in gitmo?

[โ€“] FReddit@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did. He enjoyed giving the order to shove feeding tubes up assholes. I can provide a link from Harpers.

He is shit with legs.

[โ€“] o_0@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

please share any info you have, he needs to be destroyed

[โ€“] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He worked there for sure, but we don't know all the details of what he did there. He probably just advised the actual torturers that what they were doing was legal.

[โ€“] o_0@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

There was a Vice Documentary that got canceled recently, apparrenlty he watched people get tortured and recommended force feeding and other fucked up things https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-guantanamo-force-feedings-canceled-documentary-1234793826/

[โ€“] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't he the lawyer in charge of coming up with legalese to justify torturing people?

[โ€“] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Well, he did use his position to gain the trust of gunatanamo prisoners and when they told him what was particularly stressful to them, he passed that info on to make conditions worse for them. Like, a prisoner would tell him "we usually pick the vegetarian option because we think the meat here isn't halal" and a week later, no more vegetarian food option. Things like that. There's also a pretty harrowing account of how he oversaw hunger-striking prisoners being force-fed. People screaming and throwing up and shitting themselves in agony and he stood next to that and laughed. I honestly believe that if he didn't join the navy to live out his murderous sadism, he'd be a serial killer with a collection of human body parts in his basement. Guy's a complete fucking monster.