last december the cia confirmed what amnesty international had been reporting for years - that torture was being used at cia black sites...we know this because the cia taped interrogations that included so called "enhanced interrogation techniques," used on "high value detainees,"...these tapes reportedly showed detainees being subjected to waterboarding and other forms of torture and ill-treatment, but we will never see them...instead of using these tapes to prosecute the people who violated the law, the cia destroyed the tapes, ensuring that no one will be held accountable...
we can't do anything about evidence that has been destroyed, but we can press the senate make sure the law would prevent the cia from using abusive interrogation techniques in the future...this provision already passed the house, so momentum behind this legislation is building...torture does not make us safer, and will not bring justice to those responsible for the heinous attacks of september 11th...
even longtime interrogators for the military have come out against these "enhanced interrogation techniques,"...when asked before the senate this past september if torture was necessary to provide urgent information, even in a time sensitive crisis, the response by colonel kleinman, a professional interrogator for the past 20 years with the u.s. army, was "absolutely not,"...
peace out <3
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