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27 January, 2006

This is highly misleading

This piece is so skewed, it is almost unbelievable.

The headline: Documents Show Army Seized Wives As Tactic

It goes on to detail two incidents gathered by the ACLU with a Freedom of Information request.

The tone is critical and accusatory. Loaded terms are used like "secretive task force" and "documents tell a different story".

Here's the problem, the first incident is from an official complaint lodged by someone who was present. In other words, the person writing the memo was objecting to the behavior and going through channels. It was the exact opposite of a cover-up. The woman was released after the complaint was lodged.

The second incident is an exchange of emails in which it is pretty clear that the people detaining the women in question believed they possessed information and were being held for a reason.

Two incidents in the hundreds of documents the ACLU gathered. One of which was addressed through channels, the other appears to have been justified to the people involved...

Another badly written hit piece.