Senate confirms Rumsfeld Authorized Torture

Take Action: Ask President-elect Obama to Ban Torture and Close the School of the Americas

Yesterday the US Senate released a report confirming that Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior US officials are responsible for authorizing torture at Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay. Similarly, the torture manuals used at the School of the Americas/WHINSEC - made public in 1996 - were also authorized by the highest levels of the Pentagon in the early 1980s. Read the Reuters article here: www.soaw.org/rumsfeld

TAKE ACTION: Please Call the Obama transition team and share the below message at 202-540-3000 - after instructions, press "2" to speak with the transition team.

"President- elect Obama, as a member of the School of the Americas Watch - I ask that after you are inaugurated President that you issue executive orders to ban torture - no exceptions, close the School of the Americas/WHINSEC and close Guantanamo Bay."

Please also take a moment to Contact President-elect Obama via his website to paste in the above message at: http://change.gov/page/content/contact

We need your help to spread the information about the SOA/WHINSEC and about the reality of U.S. foreign policy. To that end, we want to expand the network of activist distributors around the country to get the paper in as many hands as possible.

Please visit the Presente webpage to learn more about the newspaper of the movement: www.SOAW.org/presente

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You can also e-mail your address to Rebecca at Rebecca@soaw.org or give her a call in the office at 202-234-3440 (please place your order before December 17, 2008) and send a check or money order for $24 by mail to:

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