Redacted though it was, the summary of the CIA torture report was still hundreds of pages of shocking misconduct. and fueled both shock and condemnation worldwide,
The condemnation was loudest from those nations the US is always criticizing on human rights, giving rivals like China and Russia a chance to point out US hypocrisy.
Even nations that were overtly involved in the program like Iraq and Afghanistan issued statements of shock about how far the program went and how brutal the day-to-day operations in the CIA’s torture dungeons actually were.
One of the few nations not shocked by anything the CIA did was Iraq, as the Abu Ghraib scandal and other brutality during the US occupation is still burned into memories there.
While the UN and others are using the summary as a call for reform and prosecution of the torturers, it seems apparent at this point that the US will not be making any policy changes.
Meanwhile, the US "justice department" thinks all this if fine and dandy there's nothing to prosecute.
The justice dept serves to persecute the governments enemies, not loyal and conscientious fellow civil servants.
Are you SERIOUS????!!!!
Meanwhile USG continues paying the psychopath who organized for cia methods torturous to torture, it did cost $81 million than and still costing $5million dollars for these psychotic doctors, paid by the working American people to USG/CIA to continue its war on "terror" while it is them whom terrorizing the world with their latest creation ISIS.
The USA is exceptional, all right, exceptionally vicious, arrogant, brutal and shameless. Next time US officials complain of another nation's human rights violations a copy of the torture report waved in their faces should be all it takes to end that conversation, but I'll bet US officials will claim "No one was prosecuted" and keep right on complaining.
Former Rep Joe Walsh went so far as to call our torturers heroic.
Lindsey (the Sissy) Graham, called the innocent Arabs we tortured 'bastards.'
See, the likes of these would be appalled and outraged if this was being done to AmeriKan soldiers in other nations, never mind innocent AmeriKan citizens in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now with the moral high ground lost, our word is as good as garbage. This is why torture is wrong and a people claiming to be the 'good guys' never engages in torture. Despite US and CIA patting themselves on the back that they had to sink to the levels of those they are fighting, this gives us a huge, long-term black eye from which we may never recover.
In the eyes of the world, the US lost her shine and is no better than Israel in her contempt of the Arab Muslims.
Love your work, but please edit your posts better. Glaring errors abound.
The tortures we read about now, we will probably be experiencing ourselves after we've been rounded up and put in FEMA camps. Get yourselves ready!!