{"id":360473,"date":"2018-05-10T01:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-just-immoral-but-a-tool-for-more-war\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T01:20:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:20:51","slug":"not-just-immoral-but-a-tool-for-more-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-just-immoral-but-a-tool-for-more-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Immoral, But a Tool for More War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA, there\u2019s rightfully some interest in her\u00a0record<\/a>\u00a0regarding\u00a0torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are\u00a0questions of\u00a0legality and ethics<\/a>\u00a0and with respect to torture and it\u2019s possible as some have argued that the motivation of Haspel and others in overseeing torture and covering it up may be\u00a0simple sadism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But \u2014 especially given\u00a0how little we know<\/a>\u00a0about Haspel\u2019s record \u2014 it\u2019s possible that there\u2019s an even more insidious motive in the U.S. government practicing torture: To produce the rigged case for more war. Examining this possibility is made all the more urgent as Trump has put in place what clearly appears to be a war cabinet. My\u00a0recent questioning<\/a>\u00a0at the State Department failed to produce a condemnation of waterboarding by spokesperson\u00a0Heather Nauert.<\/p>\n

Gina Haspel\u2019s hearing on Wednesday gives increased urgency to highlighting her record on torture and how torture has been \u201cexploited.\u201d That is, how torture was used to create \u201cintelligence\u201d for select policies, including the initiation of war.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, has stated that neither he nor Powell were aware that the claims that Powell made before the UN just before the invasion of Iraq where partly based on torture. According to Wilkerson, Dick Cheney and the CIA prevailed on Powell to make false statements about a connection between Al-Qaeda and Iraq without telling…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0 With the nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA, there\u2019s rightfully some interest in her\u00a0record\u00a0regarding\u00a0torture. Of course, there are\u00a0questions of\u00a0legality and ethics\u00a0and with respect to torture and it\u2019s possible as some have argued that the motivation of Haspel and others in overseeing torture and covering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}