CIA admits torture
What, you’re surprised??
It was a good day to bury bad news. As millions of Americans were glued to the most exciting presidential race in living memory, the Bush Administration admitted publicly for the first time that it had used the simulated drowning technique of waterboarding on terror suspects in its custody.
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Michael Hayden, the CIA director, confirmed the use of waterboarding in congressional testimony, in response to leaked reports that the tactic was used on three al-Qaeda suspects in the two years after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The admission prompted demands from Democratic senators for an investigation into whether interrogators broke the law.
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It also means Bush lied when he said the US does not torture. Business as usual.
They actually admitted it on Tuesday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7229169.stm
Though that was an even better day for burying bad news
I’m somewhat surprised at all of the spotlight on waterboarding; granted, it’s an effed up and scary torture tactic, but aren’t all the other tactics just as bad? And there’s a body of documentation detailing CIA torture as evidence that torture is indeed used. The Bush administration has admitted in the past that it uses “interrogation techniques…”
While Bush has said that they use “enhanced” interrogation techniques, the administration was never explicit about what techniques they actually used, but assured that they do not torture.
Until now, that is. In the wikipedia article about waterboarding, it says:
Disgraceful.
I am not surprised that the Bush administration tortures – but I am surprised and disappointed that it is not considered a big fucking deal.
It’s not a big deal? Happens all over the world. If anything it’s a plus point for the CIA for admitting it. Nothing to do with Bush, went on before him and it’ll go on after him.
Ravi:
“While Bush has said that they use “enhanced†interrogation techniques, the administration was never explicit about what techniques they actually used, but assured that they do not torture.”
I know; but for anyone who thinks that this doesn’t happen unless the CIA admits it is living in the dark. What secret service body does NOT use torture?!
Another thing too is how shocked everyone was when the Abu Ghraib photos came out. I mean, the visual proof IS effective, but for anyone who knows about the military, this type of thing is NOT a deviation (several years ago, I had gone through army manuals, as well as stuff from the School of Americas, and it’s quite astonishing how institutionalized “interrogation” techniques are.)
Ravi:
“While Bush has said that they use “ENHANCED†interrogation techniques, the administration was never explicit about what techniques they actually used,”
“Enhanced” is a dead give-away that it’s torture!!!!!!!! That’s practically an admission right there. What do people think “enhanced interrogation techniques” mean?????
Ravi, not lashing out at you
Lashing out at…well, I guess torture and most of the public’s resigned awareness. Like, how much can we as citizens stop it?
What about other forms of torture, “classified” by the Administration because they are using “classified” weapons – electromagnetic weapons – acoustic, microwave, radiofrequency and radiological devices on the prisoners in Guantanamo (and even on dissidents in the US) to keep them quiet. These weapons are classified by the United Nations as “weapons of mass destruction”. Imagine that, we are using weapons of mass destruction, after invading a sovereign nation, executing its sovereign leader for “having” WMD which we are using on our own citizens!!! Check out the DARPA project (the state of Maryland is – so is the University of Maryland – good friends Stansfield Turner, former CIA director at UMAB is interested!!!) He was involved in MKULTRA and damaging brains remotely (via remote concussions on their – CIA’s victims). Too bad these weapons were not available when Martin Luther King, Jr. or Eleanor Roosevelt were around – being the offensive, threatening Americans they were!!
Why isn’t anyone questioning these weapons? The rest of the world, including the Russians which have a federal law describing their use (and their prohibition) is – we won’t even acknowledge their existence!!!
Anyone else out there that still has their own mind to think and question? Or, are we all automatons now?