If prosecutions do not
follow the publication of this document, in the U.S. and at the international level,
than the system of justice is nothing but a mockery. Remember, Milosevic was jailed
by the International Court of Justice and actually died in prison in the Hague during
his five-year trial. Will anybody be brought to trial for these criminal acts?
The centralization of ownership of the private media in the United States and elsewhere has become increasingly pronounced, at the same time that its reporting has become increasingly one-sided and monolithic. My blog seeks to expose this lack of objectivity and present alternative ideas that point in the direction of much-needed fundamental change.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
SENATE REPORT ON CIA TORTURE IS SHOCKING AND MACABRE
If what the report demonstrates
is not torture than the word doesn’t mean anything. The Senate’s 6,000
page report on CIA torture documents such horrific acts as rectal feeding (or
what they call “rectal hydration”) designed as a way to gain, in the words of
the CIA’s chief of interrogations, “total control over the detainee.” The report
points out that the torture techniques were so horrific that CIA agents at times
attempted to terminate the sessions, but were given orders by senior CIA officials
to continue. The report also suggests that the CIA lied about having carried
out waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on a limited number of
prisoners. Only the 524 page “executive summary” was declassified. Why wasn’t
more of the text (perhaps excluding only the names of the CIA agents)
published? Is there more in the way of gory details we need to know?
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