One year
UK intel officials enter Guardian offices, destroy hard drives with Snowden docs: The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, explains that he is now forced to work on stories about the US National Security Administration from New York City, because UK intelligence officials went into the Guardian’s headquarters and destroyed hard drives that had copies of some of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Five years
Afghanistan: graphic novel voting guides for today’s presidential elections: BB reader Jeannine (@j9drost) tweets, “My brother helped illustrate a 25-page Afghan election manual. More civic education materials here.”
Ten years
Medical professionals complicit in Abu Ghraib torture, says bioethicist: Dr. Stephen Miles wrote a scathing editorial for UK medical journal The Lancet which says that U.S. military medical personnel were complicit in detainee torture incidents that took place in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to the University of Minnesota bioethicist, “The US military medical system failed to protect detainees’ human rights, sometimes collaborated with interrogators or abusive guards, and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings.” Based on data gleaned from government documents, he details cases of alleged abuse participation by medical personnel, and calls for a formal inquiry.