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5 Explosive Revelations Leaked from Senate Report Exposing CIA Torture

Should Torturors Be Prosecuted?

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5 Explosive Revelations Leaked from Senate Report Exposing CIA Torture | Alternet"The controversy over a Senate investigation documenting the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 regime of global torture continues to generate headlines—even though the report has yet to be released. he Senate report has sparked a bitter war between the CIA and senators like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who accused the CIA of spying on those looking at CIA documents on torture.
But while the official inquiry has not been published, dogged journalists have published key—and disturbing—details of what is contained in it."...snip
"1. Black site at Guantanamo."snip
"2. CIA used British-controlled island."snip
"3. CIA handed over prisoners who are now dead."snip
"4. CIA went beyond legal memo."snip
"5. CIA lied about number of prisoners."snip

You should read the article to understand the details?
Should the CIA be allowed to lie?
Should the CIA be allowed to redact anything in this report?
Does this sound like the "American Way?"
Who initiated torture in the USA?
Should torturors be prosecuted?
 
Alternet? You cannot be serious.
 
DaveFagan said:
5 Explosive Revelations Leaked from Senate Report Exposing CIA Torture | Alternet"The controversy over a Senate investigation documenting the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 regime of global torture continues to generate headlines—even though the report has yet to be released. he Senate report has sparked a bitter war between the CIA and senators like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who accused the CIA of spying on those looking at CIA documents on torture.
But while the official inquiry has not been published, dogged journalists have published key—and disturbing—details of what is contained in it."...snip
"1. Black site at Guantanamo."snip
"2. CIA used British-controlled island."snip
"3. CIA handed over prisoners who are now dead."snip
"4. CIA went beyond legal memo."snip
"5. CIA lied about number of prisoners."snip

You should read the article to understand the details?
Should the CIA be allowed to lie?
Should the CIA be allowed to redact anything in this report?
Does this sound like the "American Way?"
Who initiated torture in the USA?
Should torturors be prosecuted?
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Of course criminals should be prosecuted. But I am not sure you and I would agree on which interrogation techniques were criminal.
 
joG said:
Of course criminals should be prosecuted. But I am not sure you and I would agree on which interrogation techniques were criminal.
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I am a graduate of E & E at Warner Springs, Ca. I might know, don't you think?
 
DaveFagan said:
5 Explosive Revelations Leaked from Senate Report Exposing CIA Torture | Alternet"The controversy over a Senate investigation documenting the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 regime of global torture continues to generate headlines—even though the report has yet to be released. he Senate report has sparked a bitter war between the CIA and senators like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who accused the CIA of spying on those looking at CIA documents on torture.
But while the official inquiry has not been published, dogged journalists have published key—and disturbing—details of what is contained in it."...snip
"1. Black site at Guantanamo."snip
"2. CIA used British-controlled island."snip
"3. CIA handed over prisoners who are now dead."snip
"4. CIA went beyond legal memo."snip
"5. CIA lied about number of prisoners."snip

You should read the article to understand the details?
Should the CIA be allowed to lie?
Should the CIA be allowed to redact anything in this report?
Does this sound like the "American Way?"
Who initiated torture in the USA?
Should torturors be prosecuted?
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Absolutely none of the bolded items are new. Moreover no they should not be prosecuted. It should be buried as much as humanely possible to allow us to move forward unhindered.
 
DaveFagan said:
I am a graduate of E & E at Warner Springs, Ca. I might know, don't you think?
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:lamo I'm still waiting for you to tell what you invented as an "inventor" with "patents" that corporations/banks conspired to keep from being "on the shelf."
 
DaveFagan said:
5 Explosive Revelations Leaked from Senate Report Exposing CIA Torture | Alternet"The controversy over a Senate investigation documenting the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 regime of global torture continues to generate headlines—even though the report has yet to be released. he Senate report has sparked a bitter war between the CIA and senators like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who accused the CIA of spying on those looking at CIA documents on torture.
But while the official inquiry has not been published, dogged journalists have published key—and disturbing—details of what is contained in it."...snip
"1. Black site at Guantanamo."snip
"2. CIA used British-controlled island."snip
"3. CIA handed over prisoners who are now dead."snip
"4. CIA went beyond legal memo."snip
"5. CIA lied about number of prisoners."snip

You should read the article to understand the details?
Should the CIA be allowed to lie?
Should the CIA be allowed to redact anything in this report?
Does this sound like the "American Way?"
Who initiated torture in the USA?
Should torturors be prosecuted?
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Here's what George Washington had to say about torture:

"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country."
-- George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775

And here's what the Bible had to say about torture, from Acts 22:

The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?” When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying,

“Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.” Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, “Tell me, art thou a Roman?” He said, “Yea.”

And the chief captain answered, “With a great sum obtained I this freedom.” And Paul said, “But I was free born.” Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

It's sadly ironic that those on the oh-so-'Christian' Right ignore what the Bible says about torture.
 
Sherman123 said:
Absolutely none of the bolded items are new. Moreover no they should not be prosecuted. It should be buried as much as humanely possible to allow us to move forward unhindered.
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Not new. Just true.
 
joko104 said:
:lamo I'm still waiting for you to tell what you invented as an "inventor" with "patents" that corporations/banks conspired to keep from being "on the shelf."
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Since you have the joko104 screwdriver with the handle on both ends and the joko104 parachute that opens on impact, you need nuttin', eh?
 
ecofarm said:
Alternet? You cannot be serious.
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Gosh and now the Torture Report comes out and heavens to Murgatroyd, it's all true.
Must be a time warp in your regional hospice. As a matter of fact it seems to be
worse than the Alternet info. It eems you suffer serious shortcomings in your
ability to appraise news. The point is that you appraise news, not sites.
 
DaveFagan said:
Gosh and now the Torture Report comes out and heavens to Murgatroyd, it's all true.
Must be a time warp in your regional hospice. As a matter of fact it seems to be
worse than the Alternet info. It eems you suffer serious shortcomings in your
ability to appraise news. The point is that you appraise news, not sites.
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:screwy
 
DaveFagan said:
Gosh and now the Torture Report comes out and heavens to Murgatroyd, it's all true.
Must be a time warp in your regional hospice. As a matter of fact it seems to be
worse than the Alternet info. It eems you suffer serious shortcomings in your
ability to appraise news. The point is that you appraise news, not sites.
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It's the oldest tactic in the book: when you don't like what someone says but you can't refute what they say, resort to personal insults instead of addressing the actual points.
 
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