The Silence and the Shield: Depraved Indifference to the Atrocities of Power
Scott Horton draws tellingly on Auden and Homer in this follow-up to his remarkable piece, "The Guantanamo ‘Suicides’," the story of three captives – all of them innocent men, cleared for later release – who were almost certainly murdered in a secret site in the American concentration camp in 2006, apparently for protesting prison conditions. (We examined Horton’s story here.) The men were evidently killed during "strenuous interrogation" — i.e., they had rags stuffed down their throat while being beaten. When they died, a ludicrous story of a mutual suicide pact — under impossible physical conditions — was concocted by