[cryptome] The CIA Saves Lives
- From: doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:02:27 +0000
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cia-interrogations-saved-lives-1418142644
They still believe in their own lies...even though they have been
exposed as myths so many times. What kind of people are they? Don't
they even read the eminent research which has been carried out in their
own country, that there are better ways of obtaining information from
suspects? There is a whole science devoted to the subject.
Also, why did they only allow CIA officers with a previous record of
abuse and violence and personality disorders to become the
interrogators, without any training in any form of interrogation,
advanced or otherwise? Why wasn't it overseen, why weren't records
kept. One would have thought that if it was all above board, legal,
justifiable, and heaven forbid, moral and ethical and in the
kidnapped'ts best interests as well as that of the nation, that there
would have been plenty of records kept; if only to prove that it worked
in theory and practice, and to show that no illegal practices had been
used. Instead they illegally destroyed even the videos made of the
torture..because they said they were valueless. A new meaning for the
word "incriminating" more like.
I seem to remember one story on Cryptome, where one female CIA officer,
rather high up the heirarchy who was part of a team trying to catch Bin
Laden was so keen to get to the interrogations that she moved rock and
stone to get there. I wonder if it was satisfying and what information
did she receive after the 187th time the suspect was water boarded. Did
it help her to catch Bin Laden and to win the war on terrorism. Nice to
know that there is equality between the sexes at the CIA.
$80 million dollars paid to a couple of inexperienced psychologists...to
make sure that the program was done credibly and with respectability? A
total of $180 million spent on the programme!
Why did they involve so many other countries in their "extaordinary
rendition" trips and pay to have bases built in some of the most
respectable as well as nefarious countries in the world. Why not have
them on US territory? After all it was all legal.
I remember too, here in the UK the overflights and stopovers by
privately hired areoplanes carrying out the extraordinary rendition, was
denied by Jack Straw, the then Foreign Secretary. It took aeroplane
fanatics who took photos and accessed flight records to prove that they
had happened. The UK of course, has signed the Human Rights Act and as
signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights and supports the
European Court of Human Rights. No torture, no support for torture.
We were supposed to have learned our lessons from using similar methods
against IRA suspects way back in the "troubles".
Have no crimes been committed here? Will no one be prosecuted for
crimes against humanity? Will the US still wage war and interfere in
other countries in the name of Enduring Freedom and Human Rights...
Begins to sound a bit hollow, but there you are that is politics for you...
It is as well to remember that the greatest advocates for human rights
were the US prosecutors at the Nuremburg trials of the Nazis. "Obeying
lawful orders does not excuse abuse of the higher human right to
life"...Jackson...Leading US Prosecutor.
see url: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/nuremberg.html
ATB
Dougie.
Ah! Well! At least these human beings aren't cats...they didn't eat
their prey.
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