Without truth about torture, no reconciliation
Guardian [UK]
by Clive Stafford Smith
05/14/09
No matter how you dress it up, the question on the table is whether the Obama administration should continue to cover-up evidence of the criminal offence of torture, committed by US personnel. It is a truly remarkable notion that evidence of crimes should be suppressed because it might provoke anger around the world...
http://tinyurl.com/owtxrx
Will they hate us for the secret photographs?
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
05/14/09
Recall that immediately after 9/11, U.S. officials put out the official version of what had motivated the terrorists. ‘They hate America for its freedom and values,’ they cried. The anger and hatred that had motivated the attackers had nothing to do with U.S. foreign policy, U.S. officials claimed. Yet, today we have President Obama, on the extreme urging of the Pentagon, reneging not only on his campaign promise of ‘transparency’ but also on the commitment U.S. officials made to release the latest batch of torture photos that the Pentagon has kept hidden for some five years...
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-05-14.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Clive+Stafford+Smith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
by Clive Stafford Smith
05/14/09
No matter how you dress it up, the question on the table is whether the Obama administration should continue to cover-up evidence of the criminal offence of torture, committed by US personnel. It is a truly remarkable notion that evidence of crimes should be suppressed because it might provoke anger around the world...
http://tinyurl.com/owtxrx
Will they hate us for the secret photographs?
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
05/14/09
Recall that immediately after 9/11, U.S. officials put out the official version of what had motivated the terrorists. ‘They hate America for its freedom and values,’ they cried. The anger and hatred that had motivated the attackers had nothing to do with U.S. foreign policy, U.S. officials claimed. Yet, today we have President Obama, on the extreme urging of the Pentagon, reneging not only on his campaign promise of ‘transparency’ but also on the commitment U.S. officials made to release the latest batch of torture photos that the Pentagon has kept hidden for some five years...
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-05-14.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Clive+Stafford+Smith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
rudkla - 15. Mai, 10:11
