Uncovering the truth about CIA torture tapes揭露真相中情局酷刑錄音帶
Congress must remedy its abysmal record of investigating the Bush administration on prisoner abuse and torture. 國會必須糾正其糟糕的紀錄，調查布什政府對囚犯的虐待和酷刑。
It’s now a matter of public record: the它的，現在的問題是公開的紀錄： Central Intelligence Agency中央情報部 has tortured detainees held in US custody.已折磨的被關押者被美國扣押。
In the past week, the Bush administration announced that it is seeking the death penalty for six men allegedly involved with the 9/11 terrorist attacks; evidence against them was gathered through coercive, brutal interrogation tactics — including waterboarding.在過去的一周裡，布什政府宣布，它正在尋求死刑的六名男子涉嫌與9 / 11恐怖襲擊事件;證據，對他們聚集通過強制的，野蠻的審訊戰術-包括w aterboarding。 Only days earlier, CIA director Michael Hayden publicly defended the government’s use of this abhorrent practice, while both the White House and the director of national intelligence agreed that further use of waterboarding is acceptable if the president and attorney general approve.只有天前，中央情報局局長邁克爾海登公開辯護，政府利用這一令人髮指的做法，而無論是白宮和國家情報首長一致認為，進一步利用waterboarding是可以接受的，如果總統和總檢察長批准。
It has been known for months that the CIA destroyed videotapes depicting its so-called enhanced interrogations of two al-Qaida suspects.它已被稱為幾個月中央情報局銷毀錄影帶，展示其所謂增強盤問兩名基地組織嫌疑人。 With the government’s latest disclosures, we now know that those two detainees were waterboarded, as the tapes might have revealed.與政府的最新披露的，我們現在知道這兩個被拘留者waterboarded ，由於錄音帶可能已暴露無遺。 The tapes’ destruction potentially constitutes錄音帶'殺傷性構成潛在 the crime of obstruction.犯罪阻塞。 By destroying them the CIA also disregarded a request from the 9/11 Commission for documentation that could provide information about the 9/11 attacks, and it appears to have flouted court orders — one of which was issued in response to the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding information about the United States’ treatment of detainees overseas.通過摧毀他們中央情報局也不顧的要求，從9 / 11委員會的文件，可以提供資料， 9 / 11恐怖襲擊，而且似乎有蔑視法庭命令-其中之一是發表了回應美國公民自由聯盟的自由信息法訴訟，要求提供有關美國的被拘留者的待遇海外。 The ACLU has asked that the CIA be held in contempt for violating the judge’s order by destroying the tapes.美國民權聯盟已經要求中情局舉行的蔑視，違反了法官的命令，摧毀了錄音帶。
Both Congress and the Justice Department have taken on the necessary task of investigating the tapes’ destruction.國會和司法部已採取必要的任務是調查錄音帶'銷毀。 Unfortunately, Congress’ oversight record concerning the Bush administration’s abuses of power has been abysmal.不幸的是，國會的監督記錄有關布什政府濫用權力已一無是處。 The Justice Department’s investigation is also problematic.司法部的調查也存在問題。 It is neither independent nor objective, and its scope, which fails to include the potential criminality of the underlying acts depicted on the tapes, is too narrow.它既不獨立也不客觀，其範圍，其中不包括潛在的犯罪行為背後的行為描繪對錄音帶，是過於狹窄。 A special counsel is urgently needed, now more than ever.一個特別工作小組正在急需的，現在比任何時候都更。
Not just activists and pundits feel that way.不只是活動家和學者覺得這樣的。 According to a recent Mellman Group survey commissioned by the ACLU, Americans of all political stripes overwhelmingly support the appointment of an independent prosecutor to investigate both the destruction of the CIA’s interrogation tapes and the possible use of torture by the agency.據最近一項mellman集團的民意調查結果顯示，由美國公民自由聯盟，美國人的所有政治條紋，以壓倒多數的支持任命一名獨立檢察官調查都毀了美國中央情報局的盤問，錄音帶，以及可能使用酷刑，由該機構。 Every segment of the electorate — including clear majorities of Democrats (82 percent), independents (62 percent), and Republicans (51 percent) — want to hold this administration accountable for its role in the destruction of the torture tapes.每部分的選民-包括明確的多數民主黨人（ 8 2％ ） ，獨立人士（ 6 2％ ）和共和黨（ 5 1％ ） -希望舉辦這期的政府，為它的作用在銷毀酷刑錄音帶。 It seems that human rights is still, thankfully, a nonpartisan concern.看來，人權仍然是值得慶幸的是，一個非黨派的關注。
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey’s choice to head up the investigation of the tape destruction is a veteran federal prosecutor from Connecticut, John H. Durham.總檢察長邁克爾乙mukasey '之選，以頭部抓緊調查錄音帶銷毀，是一位資深的美國聯邦檢察官由美國康涅狄格州的約翰H達勒姆。 By all accounts, Durham has a respectable reputation.據各方反映，達勒姆已擁有令人尊敬的聲譽。 Nevertheless, he ultimately reports to Mukasey, who to this day不過，他最終報告，以mukasey ，世衛組織將在這一天 refuses to acknowledge拒不承認 that waterboarding is torture and has told Congress that the use of waterboarding by CIA interrogators “cannot possibly be the subject of a criminal” investigation.這waterboarding是酷刑，並告訴國會說，使用waterboarding由中央情報局審問"不可能會受到一個犯罪"的調查。
What is needed is a special counsel who is granted the same authority as the attorney general in matters pertaining to the investigation — like所需要的是一個特殊的律師是給予同樣管理局作為總檢察長，在有關的事項進行調查-像 Patrick J. Fitzgerald菲茨杰拉德 on the disclosure of a CIA officer’s identity.關於披露美國中情局人員的身份。 Considering what we already know of the Bush administration’s record on torture and prisoner abuse, investigative independence is essential.考慮到我們已經知道的，布什政府的記錄，對酷刑和虐俘，調查的獨立性是至關重要的。
The special counsel must also focus on the core issue of whether or not the interrogation techniques depicted on the tapes were illegal.特別律師，同時要著眼於核心問題還是不審訊技巧描繪對錄音帶都是非法的。 What can’t get lost in the controversy surrounding the tapes’ destruction is the underlying issue of our government’s use of abusive and unlawful interrogation techniques — including waterboarding.有什麼不可以迷失在爭議錄音帶'破壞是潛在的問題，我國政府的使用侮辱性和非法的審訊手段-包括w aterboarding。 The tapes are gone forever, but what must not disappear along with them is accountability for what they most surely would have revealed.磁帶的時代一去不復返了，但絕不能消失，他們和睦相處，是問責什麼，他們最肯定會暴露無遺。
The widespread international belief that the United States government is systematically and willfully breaking the law, violating international treaties, and ignoring American values by engaging in torture is a deep stain on our country’s reputation.國際社會普遍認為，美國政府是有系統地和隨意，觸犯法律，違反了國際條約，並不顧美國的價值觀念，搞酷刑，是一場深刻的污點，我們國家的聲譽。 Americans want to know the facts and the extent to which their government acted with brazen disregard for basic human rights.美國人想知道事實，並在何種程度上他們的政府採取了明目張膽的漠視人的基本權利。 Naming a special counsel would be a good and necessary start.命名一個特別工作將是一個很好的和必要的開端。
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