Is the US maintaining death squads and torture militias in Afghanistan? | Glenn Greenwald

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and local residents insist that the answer is yes

In 2010, as WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified documents relating to the conduct of the US government, government defenders dismissively claimed that they revealed nothing new. Among the many documents disproving that claim were ones relating to a US policy in Iraq set forth in "Frago 242", which ordered coalition troops not to stop or even investigate torture and other war crimes by the Iraqi...