Torture and Mr. Obama
CounterPunch
by William Blum
05/05/09
Okay, at least some things are settled. When George W. Bush said ‘The United States does not torture,’ everyone now knows it was crapaganda. And when Barack Obama, a month into his presidency, said ‘The United States does not torture,’ it likewise had all the credibility of a 19th century treaty between the US government and the American Indians...
http://counterpunch.org/blum05052009.html
The reluctant enablers of torture
Salon
by Sheri Fink
The recent Senate Armed Services Committee report on the treatment of detainees captured during the Bush administration’s War on Terror revealed that several American military officers acted to stop harsh interrogations of prisoners. Likewise, the Senate report showed that psychologists versed in the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape ‘SERE’ program, which was meant to train American soldiers how to cope with torture if captured by the enemy, warned officials as early as 2002 that reverse-engineering SERE techniques for use on detainees could be ineffective and dangerous. What has been little noticed in the report is that the same psychologists helped develop the very interrogation policies and practices they warned against...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/05/torture/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Allies in torture
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/612.html
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Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/06-13
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The Faux Defense of Western Liberties from the Anti-Muslim, Mark Steyn Right
By Glenn Greenwald
One of the tactics endlessly used by America's right-wing warriors in their crusade against Islamic radicalism is the pretense that they are motivated by a defense of core Western freedoms, particularly free speech rights.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22561.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=right-wing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Indians
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheri+Fink
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
by William Blum
05/05/09
Okay, at least some things are settled. When George W. Bush said ‘The United States does not torture,’ everyone now knows it was crapaganda. And when Barack Obama, a month into his presidency, said ‘The United States does not torture,’ it likewise had all the credibility of a 19th century treaty between the US government and the American Indians...
http://counterpunch.org/blum05052009.html
The reluctant enablers of torture
Salon
by Sheri Fink
The recent Senate Armed Services Committee report on the treatment of detainees captured during the Bush administration’s War on Terror revealed that several American military officers acted to stop harsh interrogations of prisoners. Likewise, the Senate report showed that psychologists versed in the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape ‘SERE’ program, which was meant to train American soldiers how to cope with torture if captured by the enemy, warned officials as early as 2002 that reverse-engineering SERE techniques for use on detainees could be ineffective and dangerous. What has been little noticed in the report is that the same psychologists helped develop the very interrogation policies and practices they warned against...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/05/torture/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Allies in torture
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/612.html
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Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/06-13
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The Faux Defense of Western Liberties from the Anti-Muslim, Mark Steyn Right
By Glenn Greenwald
One of the tactics endlessly used by America's right-wing warriors in their crusade against Islamic radicalism is the pretense that they are motivated by a defense of core Western freedoms, particularly free speech rights.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22561.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=right-wing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Indians
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheri+Fink
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
rudkla - 6. Mai, 11:21
