The Bush Administration Kept an Innocent Man in a Coffin-Sized Dungeon for 10 Months
This is just so unbelievably wrong:
We know this is the modus operandi of the Bush crew. They loves their torture. They gots to have their torture.
You know what TORTURE does more than anything?
It forces people to confess to things they NEVER DID, which is, I suspect, the main point.
What I want to know is-- what the HELL has happened to this country?
When exactly was it that the CIA turned into the gestapo?
I'm angry about this, and I'm also angry that more people aren't angry about this. There is a real sickness that pervades the people running this country. And it's not just Bush and Cheney and the neocons and enablers like John Yoo. It's all the underlings who are carrying out the incredibly immoral policies of the Bush administration. The sad thing is the problem runs DEEP.
(via Glenn Greenwald)
UPDATE: The related issue of how this insanity plays out for domestic politics is discussed here by Digby, with the bottom line is that Republicans are putting on a show acting as if they are disagreeing with the Bush administration whereas in reality they are only weakly watering down the immorality. And still, almost nothing is heard from the democrats.
Arar, now 36, was detained by U.S. authorities as he changed planes in New York on Sept. 26, 2002. He was held for questioning for 12 days, then flown by jet to Jordan and driven to Syria. He was beaten, forced to confess to having trained in Afghanistan -- where he never has been -- and then kept in a coffin-size dungeon for 10 months before he was released, the Canadian inquiry commission found.snip
O'Connor concluded that "categorically there is no evidence" that Arar did anything wrong or was a security threat.
Since Sept. 11, the CIA, working with other intelligence agencies, has captured an estimated 3,000 people in its effort to dismantle terrorist networks. Many of them have been secretly taken by "extraordinary rendition" to other countries, hidden from U.S. legal requirements and often subject to torture.
We know this is the modus operandi of the Bush crew. They loves their torture. They gots to have their torture.
You know what TORTURE does more than anything?
It forces people to confess to things they NEVER DID, which is, I suspect, the main point.
What I want to know is-- what the HELL has happened to this country?
When exactly was it that the CIA turned into the gestapo?
I'm angry about this, and I'm also angry that more people aren't angry about this. There is a real sickness that pervades the people running this country. And it's not just Bush and Cheney and the neocons and enablers like John Yoo. It's all the underlings who are carrying out the incredibly immoral policies of the Bush administration. The sad thing is the problem runs DEEP.
(via Glenn Greenwald)
UPDATE: The related issue of how this insanity plays out for domestic politics is discussed here by Digby, with the bottom line is that Republicans are putting on a show acting as if they are disagreeing with the Bush administration whereas in reality they are only weakly watering down the immorality. And still, almost nothing is heard from the democrats.
posted by spooked at 10:35 PM
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when you research the history of the OSS/CIA, it started in the mid-40s, after WW2...the US Govt recruited Nazis to work with the CIA and the early days of the Space Program...Prescott Bush was financially connected to the Nazis...connect the money, to the Bush/Neo-con/CIA crew, to the Nazis, there you go...
Right, you are, anon. Thanks.
I guess the question is why did the CIA become so blatant about acting like the gestapo?
I've been profoundly disturbed by John Yoo's comments on Bush's right to torture. So I made a mashup audio track of news clips with the Wu-Tang Clan. Listen.
I share your anger and I express it almost every day to anyone who will listen. The problem is that so many people are so miserably uninformed (their fault) that they think I have taken leave of my senses. As the mainstream media belatedly starts to give front page coverage to the travesties being committed, eyes will and are being opened. I just hope there is enough time.
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