The Face of Jose Pallida. The Shamless Face of America

A visit to the dentist.

Jose Padilla, fitted with blacked-out goggles, was videotaped by the government when he was allowed outside solitary confinement to see a dentist.

As this long shameless saga (listen/read) drags on through the sewage of Bush's America, prosecution officials (AKA Bush, Gonzales and the rest of this criminal gang) argued before federal judge Marcia Cooke,

that Padilla is wholly unharmed—after spending 1,307 days in a 9-foot-by-7-foot cell in a Navy brig in South Carolina, (update Slate) and links. this taken from the first link.

There is no need to go so far back to prove that the US military knew full well that it was driving Padilla mad. The army's field manual, reissued just last year, states: "Sensory deprivation may result in extreme anxiety, hallucinations, bizarre thoughts, depression, and antisocial behaviour" - as well as "significant psychological distress".

Slate: It has alienated our former allies and undermined basic principles of humane conduct. And yet the government now claims it is "irrelevant."

TalkLeft: Gonzalez: What We Did to Padilla is Irrelevant

More from TalkLeft on the supposed "evidence" and the methods used to obtain it.

The Jose Padilla Wiretaps

Jose Padilla Alleges Witness Statements Obtained Through Torture

On Pallida's "visit" to the dentist. The Torment of Jose Padilla and yes my dear,

"There should be a greater outcry over this."