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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInstead of making us safer, the BUSCHO-CIA just put a bigger target on our backs.
Cheney, Hayden, Rodriguez, and the psychologists need to stop playing games with their denials. This report is just confirmation of so many earlier reports which show they knew, they lied and the program was shoddily run, poorly managed and useless in terms of results.
As I said, el-Masri is but one example. The court decision lists some of the amounts other countries have paid to abused CIA detainees when officials of those countries assisted the CIA. Maher Arar was paid $10 million by Canada. The U.K. paid $1 million to Binyan Mohammed. Sweden paid $450,000 to two detainees.
The CIA didn't just corrupt our values, it dragged other countries into the mud with it. Instead of making us safer, the CIA just put a bigger target on our backs.
Since no charges will be brought here, we can only hope that new charges are brought in other countries and arrest warrants are issued. (CIA agents have already been convicted in Italy. Charges were filed and are pending in Germany and were filed in Spain but dismissed.) These CIA agents and approving government officials should have to look over their shoulder every time they engage in international travel. They can ask Roman Polanski what it feels like. I think they deserve to live with the fear of arrest from international travel much more than he does.
much more:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2014/12/10/215939/27/detainees/Pointless-Denials-of-Torture-Report-Details
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)They are patriots (President Obama)
It is time to look forward, not backwards (President Obama)
We are being sanctimonious (President Obama)
The whole damn system is evil and corrupt to the core.
The United States of America will stop any country that tries to convict its patriotic war criminals.
The United States is a rogue nation.
It does not play well with others.
It does not play by the rules it sets.
It controls the UN, The World Bank, and the IMF.
It has the largest military.
It manufacturers more weapons than any other country.
It will take what it wants by force !!!!!!!!!!!
History proves this over and over again.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)they repeat, including Udall. Whitewashing again the bushes involvement in heinous crimes. They are working diligently to make bush look like an innocent dummy, so they can put another in the wh. They didn't become the "first family" of the us by being benevolent angels.
JEB
(4,748 posts)Criminals run our government.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)We didn't know it in excruciating, gory detail, but we knew enough. We knew enough to impeach. We knew enough to put people behind bars. We knew enough.
And the people we have been torturing, bombing, incinerating, and dismembering knew it. They already hate us for it. I'm not sure yesterday's report made any impression on them. They already knew everything in it.