And in other torture news.

The US invited three UN Human Rights investigators to come and examine Guantanamo. As of today's Rumsfeld press conference, Rumsfeld said they would not be allowed to even speak with any of the detainees, just come look at the facilities and talk with the commanding officers. Needless to say, the UN investigators have made it clear that they will refuse to investigate under those conditions.

In the bottom of that story, there's another graphic mention of the hunger strike and the court case around it. Funny how Rumsfeld is always legally distant from any controversial decisions regarding detainee "abuse."

U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler last week ordered the government to provide medical records on Guantanamo prisoners who are being force-fed and to notify their lawyers about forced feedings.

The judge said detainees' lawyers had presented "deeply troubling" allegations of U.S. personnel violently shoving feeding tubes as thick as a finger through the men's noses and into their stomachs without anesthesia or sedatives, with detainees vomiting blood as U.S. personnel mocked them.

Rumsfeld appeared to distance himself from the decision to force-feed detainees.

"I'm not a doctor and I'm not the kind of a person who would be in a position to approve or disapprove. It seems to me, looking at it from this distance, is that the responsible people are the combatant commanders. And the Army is the executive agent for detainees," Rumsfeld said.