Documents release by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday show that the Bush Administration, knowing that it was torturing prisoners and violating international law, hid prisoners from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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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.
Regarding the ICRC, the United States long has complained that other countries such as China or the old Soviet Union prevented independent access to prisoners or made their conditions look better when outsiders were inspecting. The Bush administration appears to have engaged in similar practices, however.
