Portions of the conclusions of the high-profile Senate inquiry into CIA torture have leaked to the public today, revealing the CIA’s torture and detention program was “brutal, and far worse than the agency communicated to policymakers.”
The 20 findings leaked concluded torture failed to produce any valuable information, and that the CIA deliberately leaked inaccurate reports on the program to give the impression it was working.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D – CA), who supposedly is leading the charge for releasing the report, condemned the leak of a fraction of it, demanding the prosecution of whoever was responsible for the information getting into the media.
The CIA has been fighting for years to keep the reports secret, arguing that they are unfairly harsh to the torturers and should never see the light of day.
How much more has been kept from us and our elected leaders…… I myself believe that EVERYTHING we have been told by the wholly owned corpo-rat gobbermint and their but buddies., the MSN news consensus is a lie…… Everything…!!!!
How much more has been kept from us and our elected leaders…… I myself believe that EVERYTHING we have been told by the wholly owned corpo-rat gobbermint and their but buddies., the MSN news consensus is a lie…… Everything…!!!!
How much more has been kept from us and our elected leaders…… I myself believe that EVERYTHING we have been told by the wholly owned corpo-rat gobbermint and their but buddies., the MSN news consensus is a lie…… Everything…!!!!
They did not have to "Torture in America is an open secret and have been at it since the early 40s"
But who is responsible? is it Bush, or Obama? Someone must have laid the foundation for tortures, and was later approved by executive orders. The torturers didn't bother to report back to their bosses, they were like a bunch of kids let loose in a candy store, after all, the door was unlock by the same people who are complaining, that they didn't know the kids would have torched the candy store….lies and more lies.
Face it, the US is gone as a Constitutional Republic, it will take a Maximus type person to restore it.
Bull…………
Back in 2005
Durbin Apologizes for Nazi, Gulag, Pol Pot Remarks http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/06/22/durbin-ap…
So, the CIA doesn't wish for the report to be released…because it is "unfairly harsh to the torturers"…
Really? They broke the law and they should be prosecuted – all of them – from the guy who actually did the torture all the way to the top where the authorization to do it were made. No amount of "memos" will ever justify and legalize torture.
And now that some of the details are publicly known, putting the genie back in the bottle is impossible and will inflame the push to get the full summary released.
Though it will probably never become known, I would not be surprised to learn that the "leak" most likely came from DiFi's staff…just sayin'…
"Unfairly harsh to the torturers" (!!!)
The poor dears! Zey ver just following za orders!
That didn't wash when it came to Nazis torturing and killing Jews, why should it pass the sniff test for Americans doing the same thing to Arabs?
Or "Company Policy"…
And what one might expect of the amoral filth that populate the government of the united States, the focus of the leaks was on the effectiveness of torture, not its morality. One might even have looked for approval had the drawing and quartering of the prisoners yielded usable information.
It's another sign of how bizarre the world has become when torturers consider criticism "unfairly harsh" and half the US population – fed a steady diet of Hollywood propaganda like 24, Zero Dark Thirty, etc, – think torture is OK.
Torture is ok because tptb propaganda from Hollywood doesn't use it any longer to scare people on the home front about evil faceless, godless totalitarian nations going against all that is good, right and just in the world, that only the bad guys, the scumbags and the amoral low lives do it.
Now they have morphed into something the good guys have to do in order to get what they want and "protect our freedoms" at all costs. Basically we ape the treatment of Israelis to Palestinians and extrapolate it to everyone else.
Torture is ok because tptb propaganda from Hollywood doesn't use it any longer to scare people on the home front about evil faceless, godless totalitarian nations going against all that is good, right and just in the world, that only the bad guys, the scumbags and the amoral low lives do it.
Now they have morphed it into something the good guys have to do in order to get what they want and "protect our freedoms" at all costs. Basically we ape the treatment of Israelis to Palestinians and extrapolate it to everyone else.
"I share (the president's) resolve that torture and abuse will not be tolerated by this administration. If confirmed, I will ensure the Department of Justice aggressively pursues those responsible for such abhorrent actions. This was simply people who were morally bankrupt trying — having fun, and I condemn that."
— Alberto Gonzalez, Confrmation hearing for Attorney General
"These so-called ill-treatments and this torturing… were not, as assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual leaders, subleaders, and men who laid violent hands on internees… It is obvious that there were elements among them who would ill-treat internees, but this ill-treatment was never tolerated."
— Nazi Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Hoess during the Nuremberg Trails
Hoess was hung by the Soviets, was he not. A good person to compare with fascist filth, Gonzales, and the scum he served.
Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren who have fallen into their hands.
— General George Washington, Commander of the Continental Army, following the Battle of Trenton, New Jersey on December 26, 1776
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] … I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause… for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.
— George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
Why is it that when I hear the word torture, I immediately think of Dick Cheney?