CIA braces for impact of torture report inquiry as release date nears

[umbertino]

Public airing of post-9/11 practices, coming after months of negotiation, is likely to attract attention worldwide and could come as early as Tuesday

 

• Spencer Ackerman in New York
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• The Guardian, Tuesday 9 December 2014

 

 

The CIA is bracing for what could be one of the most damaging moments in its history: a public airing of its post-9/11 embrace of torture.

 

The Senate intelligence committee is poised to release a landmark inquiry into torture as early as Tuesday, after the Obama administration made a last-ditch effort to suppress a report that has plunged relations between the CIA and its Senate overseer to a historic low point.

 

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday the administration welcomed the release of the report, but warned US interests overseas were at risk of potentially violent reactions to its contents.

 

The release of the torture report will represent the third major airing of faulty CIA intelligence in 15 years, following official commissions into the 9/11 plot and Saddam Hussein’s defunct illicit weapons programs.

 

Despite months of negotiation over how much of the 6,000-page report will be declassified, most of its findings will never see the light of the day. But even a partial release of the report will yield a furious response from the CIA and its allies.

 

On Sunday, George W Bush made a show of support for CIA operatives who had participated in torture, calling them “patriots”.

 

“We’re fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the CIA serving on our behalf,” he told CNN. “These are patriots and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base.”

 

The Senate report is likely to attract global attention, owing to the CIA’s network of unacknowledged prisons in places like Poland, Thailand and Afghanistan.

 

Human-rights investigators have found 54 countries cooperated in various ways with the CIA’s renditions, detentions and interrogations, but the commitee is unlikely to reveal the agency’s foreign torture partners.

 

On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry called Senator Dianne Feinstein – the California Democrat who spearheaded the inquiry – to urge consideration of what spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the “foreign policy implications” of the report’s timing, suggesting it could inflame anti-American outrage worldwide.

 

Bloomberg first reported that the committee understood Kerry to be arguing for suppressing the report, though the State Department denies it.

 

Congressman Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday that US allies have warned that the release of the report could provoke “violence and deaths”.

 

“I think this is a terrible idea,” Rogers told CNN. “Foreign leaders have approached the government and said, ‘You do this, this will cause violence and deaths.’ Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths”.

 

Several foreign governments, including the UK and Poland, are fearful of identification by the Senate and have added to the pressure on the committee.

 

Some of the CIA’s major allies included dictators whom Barack Obama relinquished US support for or even went to war to depose, such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.

 

Jose Rodriguez, a former senior CIA official who has ardently defended torture, has already published an op-ed accusing Feinstein and her committee allies of breaking faith with a CIA it once wanted to do its utmost to stop terrorism. Several former CIA directors and Bush officials intend to argue that the Senate investigation is itself misleading.

 

Rodriguez, writing in the Washington Post, said that the committee’s conclusion that torture “brought no intelligence value is an egregious falsehood” and termed the report “a dishonest attempt to rewrite history”.

 

The report’s fundamental conclusions have been well-trailed. Senate investigators determined that the CIA’s embrace of mock-drowning, sleep deprivation, “stress positions”, sensory and dietary manipulation and other torture techniques were ineffective, and the CIA covered up that ineffectiveness by misrepresenting its results to Bush officials, Congress and the public.

 

Its executive summary examines 20 such instances during the 2002-2006 height of what the CIA prefers to call “enhanced interrogation techniques”.

 

After the committee voted in April to declassify sections of the report, Feinstein called the CIA’s actions a “stain on our history”.

 

Feinstein hoped the committee would finish its declassification negotiations with the administration within 30 days. Yet the White House placed the CIA in charge of censoring a report into its own conduct and discussions have stretched into their 10th month. In August, Feinstein and other leading Senate Democrats rejected proposed administration redactions, saying they would leave the committee’s findings incomprehensible. The agency has rejected even the use of pseudonyms for its operatives on the grounds they could reveal classified identities.

 

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Feinstein conceded that she had been obliged to give in on some of her demands for transparency: “We have to get this report out.”

 

“We will find another way to make known some of the problems,” she said.

 

The drawn-out process has prompted speculation that the administration wants to outlast Feinstein’s tenure as chairwoman and prefers for committee Republicans, who consider the inquiry a wasteful witch hunt, to preside over its partial release come January. Two committee Democrats, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, have publicly flirted with using parliamentary procedure to force disclosure, considered to be an attempt at exerting pressure on the administration.

 

Human rights campaigners have pressured the White House for months to release a maximally declassified report so as to hold the CIA accountable. It is unlikely to lead to any legal consequence for CIA officials, particularly after a special Justice Department inquiry into torture declined to indict anyone for abuses in the CIA program. The report’s greatest legal impact may be on the military tribunal for the accused 9/11 co-conspirators, whose lawyers wish to introduce the report into evidence that their clients were tortured into delivering inadmissible statements implicating themselves.

 

Hostility to the report is not restricted to the right wing. Human rights groups have criticized Senate investigators for not looking into the Bush administration architects of the program in a concession to committee Republicans, and for declining to attempt a definitive legal analysis of torture. While the CIA has criticized the inquiry for not interviewing its operatives, lawyers for CIA torture victims have said Senate investigators did not seek to interview their clients, either.

 

Beyond questions of accountability, a lingering effect of the report is likely to be damage between the CIA and the secret Senate committee that oversees the powerful intelligence agency.

 

Director John Brennan had to apologize in July after the CIA inspector general determined that agency officials surreptitiously accessed committee work product and email on a firewalled shared network. Brennan had initially denied wrongdoing that Feinstein stated had provoked a constitutional crisis. Udall and others have called on Brennan – himself a senior CIA official during the time of the inquiry’s focus – to resign.

 

 

 

Secretary of state John Kerry asked Dianne Feinstein on Friday to consider the timing of the expected release of a report on CIA interrogation techniques. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/08/cia-torture-report-release-date-nears

[Texstorm]

These are terrorist show them no mercy ! I have more empathy for the animals that sustain our lives with food than these evil abominations. Shed not one tear for them, for they were already dead.

The CIA will do what it has to do.

[Bunk]

 Loud music,A little water on the face,sleep deprivation.. OH SO HORRIBLE!!! Drones on unsuspecting people,some of them innocent bystanders??The liberal hypocrite crickets are out..

[dog53]

Plus 1 Bunk  

This really burns my a$$

Thousands of americans burned alive and crushed to death on 9-11

and we are supposed to give a fat rats a$$ about the devils that did it ?.

Yeah right.

last I heard we were not sawing the heads off of people .

We are no longer able to get the info that we need to stop people like ISIS from growing to the size it has.

Hey I say if we have to stick a few glow sticks up their arse in order to protect american lives.

Let it be so

[bigwave]

I can't remember that show in the 70's that said something like "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."

 

Heck I have been reading about "Spy vs. Spy" since I was a kid.

 

Be cool and nobody gets hurt.

 

If everybody adopted the "Love"  level then all wars would stop in a heart beat.

 

If you play with fire you are more likely to get burned than if you did't.

 

If somebody thinks its cool to cut a kids head off on video then I will be more than happy to sharpen some bamboo.

 

Bamboo?  They probably don't even use that anymore.

 

Oh well advances in technology are here to stay.

 

Peace,

 

Come on RV.

[DiveDeepSix]

I don't care what they do to these animals, check that, they are worse then animals, they have made a conscious decision to cut off limbs, acid attack, rape, torture, kill women, children, elderly and anyone else who won't submit to their sick twisted ways.  Animals don't make those types of decisions.

 

I agree they shouldn't be in Gitmo ................................... They should be laying in a ditch somewhere with their gray matter splattered all over the ground for the buzzards to feed on.  When are we going to figure out these low life's don't want to be friends no matter what we do or how much the bleeding heart muslim sympathizers want to think they can win them over, it won't work.  They have stated their goal to convert, enslave, or kill every other living person on the planet, they said it not us.  Time to put these rabid dogs down for good!!         

[Maggie123]

We are no longer able to get the info that we need to stop people like ISIS from growing to the size it has.

 

Actually we are able to get that info....

 

 

 

QUOTE:

 

"...the mastermind behind the ISIS military success (in Iraq) is former Baath Party head and Saddam Hussein successor, General Ibrahim al-Douri. Douri is reportedly the head of the Iraqi rebel group Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order as well as the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation based on his longstanding positions of leadership in the Naqshbandi sect in Iraq.

 

In 2009, US ‘Iraqi surge’ General David Petraeus, at the time heading the US Central Command, claimed to reporters that Douri was in Syria. Iraqi parliamentarians claimed he was in Qatar. The curious fact is that despite being on the US most wanted list since 2003, Douri has miraculously managed to avoid capture and now to return with a vengeance to retake huge parts of Sunni Iraq.

 

Luck or well-placed friends in Washington?"

 

"The financial backing for ISIS jihadists reportedly also comes from three of the closest US allies in the Sunni world—Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

 

US passports?"

 

"Key members of ISIS it now emerges were trained by US CIA and Special Forces command at a secret camp in Jordan in 2012, according to informed Jordanian officials. The US, Turkish and Jordanian intelligence were running a training base for the Syrian rebels in the Jordanian town of Safawi in the country’s northern desert region, conveniently near the borders to both Syria and Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the two Gulf monarchies most involved in funding the war against Syria’s Assad, financed the Jordan ISIS training.

 

Advertised publicly as training of ‘non-extremist’ Muslim jihadists to wage war against the Syrian Bashar Assad regime, the secret US training camps in Jordan and elsewhere have trained perhaps several thousand Muslim fighters in techniques of irregular warfare, sabotage and general terror.

 

The claims by Washington that they took special care not to train ‘Salafist’ or jihadist extremists, is a joke.

How do you test if a recruit is not a jihadist? Is there a special jihad DNA that the CIA doctors have discovered?"

 

http://rt.com/op-edg...sm-usa-cia-war/

 

More links:

http://www.thedailyb...nding-isis.html

http://www.crescent-...3-articles.html

[Djorgie]

Yeah well, people easily forget WHO helped create groups like ISIS, BOKO HARAM, AL QUAIDA, etc. and are in on all of these horrofic acts to this day.

 

The CIA are terrorists of the worst kind and if you weren't aware of this before you may want to get informed. It is a shame that we easily point fingers at everyone else when it is our OWN government that creates and implements these kind of murderous acts on not only other countries but, right here at home... and the worst part about it that most haven't a clue. They say the best slave is the one who doesn't even know he is a slave.

[DiveDeepSix]

Yeah well, people easily forget WHO helped create groups like ISIS, BOKO HARAM, AL QUAIDA, etc. and are in on all of these horrofic acts to this day.

 

The CIA are terrorists of the worst kind and if you weren't aware of this before you may want to get informed. It is a shame that we easily point fingers at everyone else when it is our OWN government that creates and implements these kind of murderous acts on not only other countries but, right here at home... and the worst part about it that most haven't a clue. They say the best slave is the one who doesn't even know he is a slave.

 

I wouldn't deny the fact our CIA has done some nasty crap to others, however the subject at hand IMO is more islam and their manual on how to enslave and destroy the world (koran) I've never seen a CIA manual talk about wiping out the planet except for those who follow some insane cult based off the teachings of a pedophile.  They have been doing this crap to each other long before our CIA ever existed Dj, they've never left the stone ages.

[Maggie123]

Yeah well, people easily forget WHO helped create groups like ISIS, BOKO HARAM, AL QUAIDA, etc. and are in on all of these horrofic acts to this day.

 

The CIA are terrorists of the worst kind and if you weren't aware of this before you may want to get informed. It is a shame that we easily point fingers at everyone else when it is our OWN government that creates and implements these kind of murderous acts on not only other countries but, right here at home... and the worst part about it that most haven't a clue. They say the best slave is the one who doesn't even know he is a slave.

 

Well Said Djorgie... Thank You

[DiveDeepSix]

Yep speaking of sympathizers right on time!!   

 

Let see if I can comprehend what's going on in the brain of a muslim sympathizer:  Apparently the CIA trained them how to FIGHT, even though they have been fighting since they were cavemen, so this just makes them better at it.  So because they sell off, torture, or kill their daughters and wives, throw acid on innocent people, blow up buildings full of women and children, mutilate children and each other for minor insults, treat their livestock better then their wives, stone people to death, carry out mass rapes in the name of tribal justice (all based off of their stupid cult not ANYTHING taught to them by  the USA or our CIA) and have been carrying on this way since the beginning of time, it's somehow the USA's fault.  Ok got it.  Maybe the sympathizers should all move over there and protest against us evil Americans.  Good riddance, what a joke.   

[new york kevin]

Yeah well, people easily forget WHO helped create groups like ISIS, BOKO HARAM, AL QUAIDA, etc. and are in on all of these horrofic acts to this day.

The CIA are terrorists of the worst kind and if you weren't aware of this before you may want to get informed. It is a shame that we easily point fingers at everyone else when it is our OWN government that creates and implements these kind of murderous acts on not only other countries but, right here at home... and the worst part about it that most haven't a clue. They say the best slave is the one who doesn't even know he is a slave.

I am SPECULATING HERE. The CIA May have trained these guys but not while they were ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaida, et al. We trained them while they were under Saddams umbrella, you dork. They split off to do their own thing once their rape prisons were closed by the USA when weren't in there. Do you not think that the Syrian Freedom Front (or whatever their name is) that we are training in Saudi Arabia to battle Syrias ****-tater may warp into a ISIS type group in Syria if they ever have success and topple that a-hole. We trained them how to plan, execute said plan, and hold their ground. That psycho torture (using a hand drill et al), kidnap kids, rape and other weird sick Islamic stuff they brought in on their own. All w do is play loud music, keep the people awake , and give them a towel and a gallon of h2o. I bet you like Feinstein still don't you. Sorry, I should not be attacking you for merely expressing your views. I apologise.

[dog53]

I am SPECULATING HERE. The CIA May have trained these guys but not while they were ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaida, et al. We trained them while they were under Saddams umbrella, you dork. They split off to do their own thing once their rape prisons were closed by the USA when weren't in there. Do you not think that the Syrian Freedom Front (or whatever their name is) that we are training in Saudi Arabia to battle Syrias ****-tater may warp into a ISIS type group in Syria if they ever have success and topple that a-hole. We trained them how to plan, execute said plan, and hold their ground. That psycho torture (using a hand drill et al), kidnap kids, rape and other weird sick Islamic stuff they brought in on their own. All w do is play loud music, keep the people awake , and give them a towel and a gallon of h2o. I bet you like Feinstein still don't you. Sorry, I should not be attacking you for merely expressing your views. I apologise.

 

Spot on kevin . Right on the money

Yes we train people who occasionally far down the line decide to use that training against us.

Just like in afghanistan when they were  fighting the russians 1/2 the a$$holes we trained turned in to the taliban.

and that makes us responsible somehow. 

 

Boy is that a stretch

[new york kevin]

Feinstein and friends were,the same batches that screamed treason on Capitol Hill when someone accidentally leaked that Valorie Plane was a CIA currier or some low level CIA thing like that. Feinstein gave the fricking names of at least 3 different high level CIA officials. These officials are now burnt. I hope they return to the US and sue her flat butt for putting their lives and the lives of their spouses, significant others, and children in danger needlessly. Bob Sagget.

[Whatshername]

Yep speaking of sympathizers right on time!!   

 

Let see if I can comprehend what's going on in the brain of a muslim sympathizer:  Apparently the CIA trained them how to FIGHT, even though they have been fighting since they were cavemen, so this just makes them better at it.  So because they sell off, torture, or kill their daughters and wives, throw acid on innocent people, blow up buildings full of women and children, mutilate children and each other for minor insults, treat their livestock better then their wives, stone people to death, carry out mass rapes in the name of tribal justice (all based off of their stupid cult not ANYTHING taught to them by  the USA or our CIA) and have been carrying on this way since the beginning of time, it's somehow the USA's fault.  Ok got it.  Maybe the sympathizers should all move over there and protest against us evil Americans.  Good riddance, what a joke.   

Dive... this isn't sympathizing... It's "Empathizing" with our enemies!  Hillarious explained everything!  This is "Smart Power"    

[Shabibilicious]

Feinstein and friends were,the same batches that screamed treason on Capitol Hill when someone accidentally leaked that Valorie Plane was a CIA currier or some low level CIA thing like that. Feinstein gave the fricking names of at least 3 different high level CIA officials. These officials are now burnt. I hope they return to the US and sue her flat butt for putting their lives and the lives of their spouses, significant others, and children in danger needlessly. Bob Sagget.

 

My wife yearns for a flat butt.    

 

GO RV, and NO BV

[Djorgie]

I wouldn't deny the fact our CIA has done some nasty crap to others, however the subject at hand IMO is more islam and their manual on how to enslave and destroy the world (koran) I've never seen a CIA manual talk about wiping out the planet except for those who follow some insane cult based off the teachings of a pedophile.  They have been doing this crap to each other long before our CIA ever existed Dj, they've never left the stone ages.

I definitely agree that islam is a major problem here and the state of islam is nothing more than a satanic cult (as are most religious orginizations) but, it is much deeper than just islam and that was the point I was trying to make. Of course the CIA would never print a manual stating the things they are REALLY doing... that is why as I said they are the worst kind of terrorists.

Well Said Djorgie... Thank You

Thanks... I will probably catch hell for saying but I'd rather cath it for speaking the truth rather than going along with the herd.

[Djorgie]

Yep speaking of sympathizers right on time!!   

 

Let see if I can comprehend what's going on in the brain of a muslim sympathizer:  Apparently the CIA trained them how to FIGHT, even though they have been fighting since they were cavemen, so this just makes them better at it.  So because they sell off, torture, or kill their daughters and wives, throw acid on innocent people, blow up buildings full of women and children, mutilate children and each other for minor insults, treat their livestock better then their wives, stone people to death, carry out mass rapes in the name of tribal justice (all based off of their stupid cult not ANYTHING taught to them by  the USA or our CIA) and have been carrying on this way since the beginning of time, it's somehow the USA's fault.  Ok got it.  Maybe the sympathizers should all move over there and protest against us evil Americans.  Good riddance, what a joke.   

Ummm yeah! I am not a sympathizer of ANY satanic cult including some of the so called "Christian cults".

 

Your trying to twist what I said to your way of thinking. I never implied that they were doing these things ONLY because our government "trained" them. YES, they have been doing these things for a very long time before to forming these other groups but, if you go deeper you will understand that what the CIA/government has done is much more than just training them to fight. Anyone can fight. This was a carefully orchistrated program and the reason islam and these terroist groups are now coming up and gaining ground more quickly than they ever have is because it was deliberately implemented that way.

 

The real "JOKE" is on us and the rest of the world because WE are the ones THEY are attacking weather you want to take that seriously or not.

[pattyangel]

It doesn't surprise me one bit if this government and past have any involvement of creating these monsters.  But what goes around will come around and judgment will be served, if not here on earth, for sure in heaven.  To many lives have been lost, from the children, to the women and elderly. Whatever means it takes to correct this and find out who is doing the wrong doing, then so be it.   I do have to agree with the majority on,we do not and should not empathize with the enemy. 

[Djorgie]

I am SPECULATING HERE. The CIA May have trained these guys but not while they were ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaida, et al. We trained them while they were under Saddams umbrella, you dork. They split off to do their own thing once their rape prisons were closed by the USA when weren't in there. Do you not think that the Syrian Freedom Front (or whatever their name is) that we are training in Saudi Arabia to battle Syrias ****-tater may warp into a ISIS type group in Syria if they ever have success and topple that a-hole. We trained them how to plan, execute said plan, and hold their ground. That psycho torture (using a hand drill et al), kidnap kids, rape and other weird sick Islamic stuff they brought in on their own. All w do is play loud music, keep the people awake , and give them a towel and a gallon of h2o. I bet you like Feinstein still don't you. Sorry, I should not be attacking you for merely expressing your views. I apologise.

Just also wanted to add that YES, I am a dork but, that doesn't mean I am stupid or completely ignorant...

 

If you think that for one minute that "all we do is play loud music, keep people awake and water-board" then it is MHO that you have not been introduced to reality as it pertains to our government. I wish it were how we are all taught it is and that our system wasn't really just a slave-machine but that is the reality.

 

I accept your appology. I know that my opinion may rub some the wrong way sometimes and that is okay with me as long as I can get people to think outside of the box. We NEED to do that a lot more.

Edited December 9, 2014 by Djorgie

[DiveDeepSix]

Ummm yeah! I am not a sympathizer of ANY satanic cult including some of the so called "Christian cults".

 

Your trying to twist what I said to your way of thinking. I never implied that they were doing these things ONLY because our government "trained" them. YES, they have been doing these things for a very long time before to forming these other groups but, if you go deeper you will understand that what the CIA/government has done is much more than just training them to fight. Anyone can fight. This was a carefully orchistrated program and the reason islam and these terroist groups are now coming up and gaining ground more quickly than they ever have is because it was deliberately implemented that way.

 

The real "JOKE" is on us and the rest of the world because WE are the ones THEY are attacking weather you want to take that seriously or not.

 

I understand where you are coming from with our CIA and I don't disagree, other then the fact that 99% of Americans have no idea what goes on with black ops, CIA, etc.  Most couldn't handle what's going on in the background to keep us safe, supposedly.  Do they cross the line?  Yes, without a doubt, however in my mind, terrorists lost any rights to even be considered human after the crap they pulled on us, I don't care what happens to them as long as eventually they are DEAD so they can't kill again, from now until then the CIA is I'm sure being much kinder to them then I would be.

 

As far as sympathizing with muslims I wasn't talking about you, I don't know where you stand on them.  Obviously by saying what you did about islam, I'd say we are close to being on the same page in that respect, as far as religion in general, probably not.  I believe in God and so do my kids, as for what you believe that is totally your prerogative and not my business.

[Djorgie]

I understand where you are coming from with our CIA and I don't disagree, other then the fact that 99% of Americans have no idea what goes on with black ops, CIA, etc.  Most couldn't handle what's going on in the background to keep us safe, supposedly.  Do they cross the line?  Yes, without a doubt, however in my mind, terrorists lost any rights to even be considered human after the crap they pulled on us, I don't care what happens to them as long as eventually they are DEAD so they can't kill again, from now until then the CIA is I'm sure being much kinder to them then I would be.

 

As far as sympathizing with muslims I wasn't talking about you, I don't know where you stand on them.  Obviously by saying what you did about islam, I'd say we are close to being on the same page in that respect, as far as religion in general, probably not.  I believe in God and so do my kids, as for what you believe that is totally your prerogative and not my business.

DDS,

 

Thanks and I DO most definitely believe in Elohim/YHWH/God my Heavenly Father and in my Savior, Yahushua HaMashiach/Jesus... I owe EVERYTHING to him! I don't however, believe in religion (as in man-made, man-led, twisted doctrines, etc.) because Christ did not teach ANY religion and made it clear that for the most part the religions that were in existence when he walked this earth were not in line with YHWH's/God's word or law and therefore I do not follow or put my faith in a "religion" (as do most people involved in religion, knowingly or not). I am a follower of Yahushua/Jesus and the word of our Heavenly Father only.

 

Yaushua/Jesus is the only way to the Father and neither he nor YHWH/God are liers so, the Holy Spirit that dwells in me guides, corrects, instructs, and reveals to me exactly what I should be doing and in what manner and at what time in my walk these things should happen. I know his voice because he blessed me with the eyes to see and the ears to hear. Can't really explain it any better than that.

 

My point is that "religion" is not the answer and that it is sadly for the most part just another tool used by satan himself.

 

I apologize for assuming you were replying to me regarding "sympathizers"...

 

As for islam, they are religion in one of the most outward and ugliest forms. It is difficult to say the least, to put your head around what they do. They CLAIM that allah is the one true god and yet, the ONE TRUE GOD/ELOHIM does not hate the sinner, only the sin... and he tells us to love even our enemies, to be compassionate and forgiving, not full of hatred and wrath and of a murderous heart so yeah, it is more than evident that they are of satan but, we have to remember that not all of our enemies are out in the open like they are and those are the ones that are the most dangerous.

 

Love and blessings to you my Brother in Yahushua HaMashiach/Jesus the Messiah!

[Maggie123]

We paid "contractors"... 80 Million.... to do this "work" ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/breakingtheset

[dog53]

We paid "contractors"... 80 Million.... to do this "work" ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/breakingtheset

 

Worth every penny spent 

Hey torturers got to eat to. 

 

What did one torturer say to the other torturer when their captive passed out from water boarding .

 

Here it comes wait for it.

 

 

"Throw some water on his face and wake him up"  

[Bandit795]

 

The committee’s report concluded that of the 119 detainees, “at least 26 were wrongfully held.” “These included an ‘intellectually challenged’ man whose C.I.A. detention was used solely as leverage to get a family member to provide information, two individuals who were intelligence sources for foreign liaison services and were former C.I.A. sources, and two individuals whom the C.I.A. assessed to be connected to Al Qaeda based solely on information fabricated by a C.I.A. detainee subjected to the C.I.A.'s enhanced interrogation techniques,” the report said.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/senate-intelligence-committee-cia-torture-report.html?emc=edit_na_20141209&nlid=23627335&_r=0

 

 

And it wasn't just bad guys who were tortured:

• The commander of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Janis Karpinski, estimates that 90% of detainees in the prison were innocent

• The number two man at the State Department under Colin Powell, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, says that many of those being held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent, and that top Bush administration officials knew that they were innocent

• U.S. military files show that many Guantánamo prisoners were held on the flimsiest grounds such as wearing a Casio watch, being a prisoner in a Taliban jail, driving cabs in certain geographic regions, or being Al Jazeera reporters

• Many state that those tortured were mainly innocent farmers, villagers, or those against whom neighbors held a grudge. Indeed, people received a nice cash reward from the U.S. government for turning people in as “suspected terrorists” (and see this movie)

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-09/torture-executive-summary