11, December 2014 CIA
Torture Practices
The CIA has made frantic efforts to prevent its dark
insidious, medieval torture practices made public. It is using the Bush/Cheney
playbook to warn of dire consequences should the full torture report be
published. This surely implies that they were well fully aware of the
repercussions of their crimes. The CIA has a long history of misleading the
public and hiding its brutal interrogation practices and black sites. Their
claim that such techniques provided useful intelligence leading to the capture
of Bin Laden defies belief. This sentiment was forcefully rejected by the
Senate Intelligence Committee. It concluded the intelligence agency failed to
disrupt a single plot despite torturing al-Qaeda and other captives, many of
whom were innocent of any crimes.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are calling
for a criminal investigation of senior Bush administration officials. Many
victims made false confessions under extreme duress out of fear their family
members would be assaulted and their women folks raped. The architects of these
torture practices were two clueless psychologists who had no interrogation
experience and no knowledge of the local culture or language; to add insult to
injury they were paid a staggering $81 million. Unless we hold these torturers,
and more importantly their Washington enablers, fully accountable for war
crimes, these disgusting practices will surely continue (remember Vietnam,
Blackwater, Abu Ghraib). The complete
unredacted report should be made public and President Obama should fire top CIA
officials.
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