Keith Idema

Remember the strange tale of Jonathan Keith Idema, running a private torture prison in Afghanistan? Jay sends this link to more background on him. And there's a lot. Keith has been a busy boy. During his Afghan trial, he claimed he was working with the knowledge and blessing of the U.S. military, which the military predictably denies. Of course I don't know whether he was or not (there is a video of him with General My-God-Is-Bigger-Than-You r-God Boykin, and he was all over the news media, so they at least must have known about him), but one of the tactics that appears to be working well for the U.S. government and its shady agencies is to use people with similarly shady backgrounds for their dirty work, as those people can be easily discredited when the need arises.