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By Nat Hentoff

If we are to believe this proud declaration by the CIA, it reveals how fastidiously the Bush-Cheney administration executed its policy of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" forbidden by the international Convention Against Torture, the Geneva Conventions (both of which we signed), our own torture laws and the Supreme Court's 2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23427.htm

 

CIA Atrocities Revealed to a National Shrug

By Ted Rall

Nazi crimes were also marked by public indifference, which amounted to tacit support. Here and now, only 25 percent of Americans told the latest Pew Research poll that they believe torture is always wrong.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23424.htm

 

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