Check out the
January 19th episode of Democracy Now. It features an hour-long interview with Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, fired after he protested complicity with Uzbekistan torturers (diaried
here by kos). He's eloquent, outlining (for example) the "fabric of deceipt" that launders bogus evidence from torture chambers, allowing the likes of Condi Rice and Tony Blair to quote it with perfect deniability.
See below the fold for more revelations from Murray (warning: some are horrific).
As well as reviewing his own story in detail, and touching on "Extraordinary Rendition", Murray points out several interesting facts. He comments, for example, that it was Enron that held the stake in Uzbek energy, and Ken Lay who acted as an informal ambassador between the Bush administration and the Uzbek government (an unreconstructed regime of Stalinist torturers who boil prisoners alive). Eventually, America did withdraw from Uzbekistan, and the Bush administration claimed this was due to humanitarian concerns. This is a lie, says Murray: in actual fact, America was kicked out of Uzbekistan when the Uzbek govt instead buddied up with Russian energy company Gazprom.
For more, check out the episode. He is most articulate and has a great story. Some grim details -- like fingernail extraction, midnight coffins, slaughtered grandchildren and tidemarks on human flesh -- but the guy knows his stuff when he talks about the loss of US moral authority.