Though he was quick to insist over the weekend that the US hypothetically could have found Osama bin Laden without torturing anyone, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta concedes that they actually did so.
After years of Bush and Obama Administration officials ducking the question, Panetta became the top ranking US official to ever admit to the US torturing detainees, oddly by way of questioning about the “Zero Dark Thirty” movie.
Panetta has been loudly praising the movie for the past several days, and was asked if the torture portrayed in the movie was accurate. Panetta conceded that it was “part of the puzzle.”
In the past US officials have insisted that nothing they did in the hunt for bin Laden was technically torture, though some former Bush Administration officials insisted that whatever harsh techniques were used were a good thing.
Sick!
leni riefenstahl and Hitler would have envied us!
US admits to torture – you must all be so proud, you vicious bastards – may you all burn in HELL
Fritz, "we" are fighting to take back our country from the murderers and war criminals. We need help, but hot your hellfire. US did not admit to torture, one of our agents, Leon Panetta, revealed what other agents did that. Our agents have taken over the government and are using our strengths against us. Most of us haven't awakened to the reality, yet, but that is being hidden from them by most of the media. Those few in every population who can think for themselves (13%) are awake and active.
Little by little the cloak of self esteemed dudley do right comes off bit by bit america has always tortured,comitted murder,genocide [43million native americans] and 100 million murdered to date so all the rest are boyscouts.
With a name like Fritz, I don't think you should judge an entire population by the actions of a rogue, manipulative government anyway.