McClatchy keeps doing actual journalism…and so far they let us actually cite them without lawsuits too!

And, as before, their journalism shows us the depraved nature of what we have allowed to happen by our "selected" Administration:

The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.

"We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques," Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who’s since retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture. Her comments were recorded in minutes of the meeting that were made public Tuesday. At that same meeting, Beaver also appeared to confirm that U.S. officials at another detention facility — Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan — were using sleep deprivation to "break" detainees well before then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved that technique. "True, but officially it is not happening," she is quoted as having said.

A third person at the meeting, Jonathan Fredman, the chief counsel for the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, disclosed that detainees were moved routinely to avoid the scrutiny of the ICRC, which keeps tabs on prisoners in conflicts around the world.

So the Bush Administration regularly practiced the "tin-horn dictatorship" tactics we spent literally decades decrying from whatever dictator we did not like at the moment [kindly ignore much of Central & Latin America please]. Decrying the actions of the old Soviet Union and China in hiding prisoners from the Red Cross used to be a staple of American foreign policy and the respect for human rights.

But in one fell swoop George Bush and Dick Cheney undermined it all.

So it’s comforting that John McCain has so many of Bush’s war horses acting as his advisers. Like James Woolsey, who had the temerity to accuse Obama of being "naive" and "delusional" and having a September 10, 2001 mindset yesterday because the later seems to respect the ancient concept of habeas corpus and something called the Constitution. All of which are apparently null and void to John McCain.

Of course, James Woolsey knew right after September 11th who was likely responsible for it all — Saddam Hussein. As Josh Marshall noted, Woolsey even thinks Saddam is responsible for the Murrah Building being bombed in Oklahoma City in 1995. Woolsey seems to spend an awful lot of his free time whole-heartedly endorsing Laurie Mylroie’s craziest ideas — which is really saying something.

And somehow, James Woolsey, PNAC charter member and wrong-on-every-thing is out there flacking for John McCain and being quoted instead of derided and mocked.