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A tortura trabalhou para vender a guerra de Iraq
Sábado, abril 25o, 2009
Três cheers para Dick Cheney. O vice-presidente anterior incitou, de qualquer modo rhetorically, que a liberação da administração de Obama mais dos memorandos da tortura. “Uma das coisas que eu encontro um pouco perturbar sobre esta divulgação recente é eles pôs para fora os memorandos legais, os memorandos que o CIA começou do escritório de conselhos legais, mas não puseram para fora os memorandos que mostraram o sucesso do esforço,” o vice-presidente anterior dito FoxNews. ” Eu tenho pedido agora formalmente que o CIA para fazer exame de etapas para declassify aqueles memorandos assim que nos pode os colocar para fora lá e os povos americanos têm uma possibilidade ver o que nós obtivemos e o que nós aprendemos e como bom a inteligência era.” Os relatórios de notícia diferem a respeito de se Sr. Cheney fêz formalmente o pedido, mas é absolutamente direito que os povos americanos necessitam ver o registro completo. É errado sobre o que o registro mostrará. Do material já liberado ou ferreted para fora por journalists, está desobstruído que ele e Sr. Bush sucedeu em usar a tortura, fixar não primeiramente inteligência needed, mas criar o propaganda que se usaram vender sua invasão de Iraq. A evidência vem de uma variedade das fontes, including o relatório no tratamento das forças armadas dos detidos, que sensor. O comitê dos forças armadas de Carl Levin liberou-se apenas. O relatório revelou que os oficiais do Pentagon começaram a se preparar para usar a tortura - ou “técnicas abusive da interrogação” - assim que dezembro 2001. Este era menos de dois meses após o começo do guerra em Afeganistão e oito meses antes que o departamento de justiça deu a autorização legal em dois memorandos datados agosto 1, 2002, e assinou por Jay Bybee, Attorney General do então-assistente para o escritório de conselhos legais. Tortura física e mental redefinida a primeira memorando e sugeriu que o presidente, agindo conforme a seus poders constitutional como o comandante-chefe, poderia cancelar o federal anti-tortura o statute. As segundas táticas específicas analisadas e aprovadas da interrogação, including a isolação, o deprivation prolongado do sono, as posições do stress e waterboarding, que faz a vítima para sentir que se está afogando. Se não os advogados do departamento da justiça, quem deram o go-ahead mais adiantado? O relatório do Senate põe o onus diretamente sobre o decider-em-chefe, presidente George W. Bush. He issued a written determination on February 7, 2002, “that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which would have afforded minimum standards for humane treatment, did not apply to al-Qaeda or Taliban detainees.” Former White House terrorist adviser Richard Clarke has confirmed that Mr. Bush gave an informal go-ahead even earlier. According to Clarke’s account in his book, “Against All Enemies,” Bush addressed his national security advisers late on September 11, 2001. “We are at war and we will stay at war until this is done,” Bush told them. “Any barriers in your way, they’re gone.” Later he added in a heated exchange with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, “I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.” The Senate report also pointed the finger at Mr. Cheney and other top officials of the Bush administration. “Members of the President’s Cabinet and other senior officials participated in meetings inside the White House in 2002 and 2003 where specific interrogation techniques were discussed,” the committee concluded. “National Security Council principals reviewed the CIA’s interrogation program during that period.” Why so much attention from the top? McClatchy news has provided the obvious answer. According to a former senior US intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist, the Bush administration wanted “to find evidence of cooperation between al-Qaeda and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime.” ”There were two reasons why these interrogations were so persistent, and why extreme methods were used,” said the former official. “The main one is that everyone was worried about some kind of follow-up attack (after 9/11). But for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al-Qaeda and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there.” In part to get that smoking gun, the CIA waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times and Abu Zubaydah 83 times. But neither man told the interrogators what Bush and Cheney wanted to hear about Iraq and al-Qaeda. That came from Ibn al Sheikh al Libi, whom the Bush administration sent to Egypt for what CIA Director George Tenet called “further debriefing.” As PBS Frontline reported back in November 2007, al Libi “confessed” - after being beaten repeatedly and locked in a small box for some 17 hours - that Saddam Hussein had trained al-Qaeda in chemical weapons. Al Libi later retracted his statement and the CIA later rejected it as reliable intelligence. But the torture of al Libi worked to sell the war in Iraq, providing the “evidence” that Secretary of State Colin Powell used when he spoke before the United Nations Security Council in February 2003. ”I can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these [chemical and biological] weapons to al-Qaeda,” Powell asserted. “Fortunately, this operative is now detained, and he has told his story.” Torture might not work as well as conventional interrogation to provide sound intelligence, but it certainly worked for Bush and Cheney in exactly the way they most wanted. Steve Weissman Have Your Say: Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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I hope people do something. Even John McCain who helped write a torture law has decided that torture should not be looked into and no one (yes, NO ONE) should be held accountable. That is a coward.