The CIA's Willing Torturers
By Peter Beaumont
The CIA report into prisoner abuse reveals a new, ugly reality: America's torturers weren't simply following orders.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23369.htm
Thomas Paine v. the Right's Torture Defenders
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report
By Glenn Greenwald
"It's bs... It's disgraceful. You wonder which side they're on. [It's' a] declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense. . .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23364.htm
Only Two Weeks' Training For CIA Interrogators
One officer expressed concern that one day officers would wind up on a 'wanted list' to appear before a war crimes court due to [their] activities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23367.htm
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Torture: No pardons, no excuses for the real terrorists
Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III
08/26/09
Look, it’s all well and fine, given the inherent nature of government, to cherry-pick big time and slap the wrists of a few sadistic individuals who work for one of the American government’s numerous spy agencies because a few select people were treated badly by them. It’s another, in the stark light of reality, to excuse the mass atrocities of the middle-eastern wars and those who authorized them; the vicious foreign policy stances that enabled them; and the money taken from Americans by the IRS and other taxing agents at gunpoint which pays for them. In short, no one should be making excuses for what government is and what it does — the evidence itself puts paid to that. Nor should anyone be formulating lame excuses in order to keep the institution of government in operation...
http://c4ss.org/content/977
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Beaumont
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alex+R.+Knight
The CIA report into prisoner abuse reveals a new, ugly reality: America's torturers weren't simply following orders.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23369.htm
Thomas Paine v. the Right's Torture Defenders
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report
By Glenn Greenwald
"It's bs... It's disgraceful. You wonder which side they're on. [It's' a] declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense. . .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23364.htm
Only Two Weeks' Training For CIA Interrogators
One officer expressed concern that one day officers would wind up on a 'wanted list' to appear before a war crimes court due to [their] activities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23367.htm
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Torture: No pardons, no excuses for the real terrorists
Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III
08/26/09
Look, it’s all well and fine, given the inherent nature of government, to cherry-pick big time and slap the wrists of a few sadistic individuals who work for one of the American government’s numerous spy agencies because a few select people were treated badly by them. It’s another, in the stark light of reality, to excuse the mass atrocities of the middle-eastern wars and those who authorized them; the vicious foreign policy stances that enabled them; and the money taken from Americans by the IRS and other taxing agents at gunpoint which pays for them. In short, no one should be making excuses for what government is and what it does — the evidence itself puts paid to that. Nor should anyone be formulating lame excuses in order to keep the institution of government in operation...
http://c4ss.org/content/977
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Beaumont
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alex+R.+Knight
rudkla - 27. Aug, 11:47
