On the publication of the CIA Inspector General’s Report About the Use of Torture , from The World Can’t Wait:
We understand that the May 2004 Inspector General’s report from the CIA to be released today reveals that the techniques called “enhanced interrogation” by the Bush regime were used prior interrogators receiving legal authorization. The techniques used on detainees went beyond what was authorized, scurrilous as the legal opiniona by John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and other Bush appointees were.
These techniques, the Inspector General reported, did in fact violate the Geneva Convention Against Torture, and in some cases torture was used for purposes other than obtaining information.
This calls into question President Obama’s remarks to the CIA on April 22, 2009, when he stated that there were be no prosecution of agents who used “enhanced interrogation” on good faith on orders from their superiors. This information further calls into question the Obama administration’s refusal to prosecute Bush era officials for the war crime of torture.
From the time it became known that torture was being used and authorized by those at the highest levels, World Can’t Wait has demanded that the torture be stopped, and those responsible be held accountable and prosecuted.
For our part, we are working to bring forward a mass movement of the people demanding these prosecutions.
Stay tuned for more on worldcantwait.org and warcriminalswatch.org
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When we liberated Belsen, Auschwitz, and the rest of those horrible Nazi camps, who would have thought we would create our own concentration camps?
Ken. Since I visited the Japanese Concentration camps in Arkansas during the Second World War, I’m not that surprised that we could build the camps.
What does surprise me is the total embracing by the American people of the rationale for the torture that has gone on since 9/11 2001. And of the accepting of propaganda that those tortured had information needed to save the lives of American people.
Just this week in the papers were accounts of Urghiurs who were released to the Bahamas. The Congress refused to fund bringing detainees to America or closing Gitmo for that matter. The fable that these people were the “Worst of the Worst” has been refuted so many times and with so much proof that it is almost not believable that they are still at Gitmo.
All these Chinese Dissidents living in Pakistan were rounded up by Pakistani tribal clans and sold to the united States army for the bounty offered for “terrorists”. These people living remotely in Pakistan didn’t even know that a war was ongoing. They’ve been held for seven years now. All they are guilty of is being a valuable commidity to sell.
A Senate report authorized by the Senate and delivered to the Senate and on live TV and finally available to anyone using the Internet that looked at the records of the Gitmo detainees concluded that 93% of the people at Gitmo had not supported any terrorist activity against the United States and only 1% had been caught on a battlefield, but as a consequence of being defenless the 93% have been kidnapped and sold into prison and kept there now for up to seven years, and tortured, simply because the people of the United States bought into the propaganda that they were too dangerous to bring to the U S for trial and the evidence was too helpful to the enemy to be exposed to public review.
What an absolute shame is on us for the immoral lie we have embraced.
Sorry, Ken, “we” did not liberate Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen. The Soviets liberated Auschwitz and the British liberated Bergen-Belsen. But “we” take credit for single-handedly winning WW1 and 2, so I can understand your confusion.
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