Real Brand News: Tuesday 16th April - what happened apart from the Boston bombing?

On Tuesday the 16th of April 2013 The Constitution Project released a 577 page document by it's Task Force on 'detainee treatment'. Sound uninteresting so far? well read on and remember that this report was released on the same day that attention was focused on the Boston marathon bombing. If you've found this page then you probably already know plenty about the false flag claims by the alternative media and so rather than regurgitate the list of evidence and speculation I just wish to highlight this very significant document that went largely unnoticed due to the convenient timing of other events.

An 11-member Task Force spent two years generating the report examining publicly available documents and interviewing over 100 relevant people including former detainees, military and intelligence operatives, interrogators and politicians in a variety of countries. The report details abuse of detainees during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, and covers such mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as well as the 'black sites' where the US government hides detainees in secret locations in foreign countries.

The study relied on publicly available documents, with the Task Force having no access to military records on the treatment of detainees. Despite this the Task Force still collected an overwhelming quantity of evidence on US crimes. The report’s introduction contains this indictment of the American government’s conduct in their famous “war on terror”:

“The events examined in this report are unprecedented in US history. In the course of the nation’s many previous conflicts, there is little doubt that some US personnel committed brutal acts against captives, as have armies and governments throughout history. But there is no evidence there had ever before been the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after September 11, directly involving a president and his top advisors on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain on some detainees in our custody.”

The introductory remarks also note:

“Despite this extraordinary aspect, the Obama administration declined, as a matter of policy, to undertake or commission an official study of what happened, saying it was ‘unproductive’ to ‘look backwards’ rather than forward.”

The report declares that "it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture" and that this was approved by “the nation’s highest officials”. The Task Force rejects the notion that stress positions, sleep deprivation, exposure to continuous loud music, water boarding and other enhanced interrogation tactics do not amount to torture under US and international law. As of late 2012, the Task Force writes that the US military was still capturing around 100 individuals every month for detention at the notorious Baghram Air Base prison in Afghanistan.

The Constitution Project’s report documents common and regular use of torture at the Guantanamo Bay camp. 166 men have been detained there for the past 11 years, the majority without having been accused of a crime, and all without a trial or basic due process of law. Many have tried to commit suicide. Six have succeeded. The release of the new study coincided with a crackdown by US military guards at Guantanamo against a month-long hunger strike by as many as 100 detainees.

The Constitution Project’s report on detainee treatment is a catalogue of criminality, their findings provide powerful evidence for war crimes proceedings against three US presidents and their administrations, including cabinet members, Department of Justice lawyers, military commanders and intelligence officials.

The alternative news media will be brushed off as crazy conspiracy theorists but thoroughly researched professional reports such as this can not be. Of all the strange goings on and unexplained coincidences that have followed the events of Tuesday 16th April 2013, one thing is for certain..... this document failed to penetrate the headlines of both the mainstream news and the alternative news.