They
knew it was torture and they knew it was a
crime.
Table Of Contents: The CIA tortured a lot more people, for a lot longer, in a lot worse ways than even Bush and Chaney knew, lied to the President and Congress about the torture program for years, and gained little if any useful information from these crimes (no imminent threats detected, all claimed successes were bogus). Based on the evidence in the heavily censored Senate report, people who did the torturing, their superiors and the entire chain of command up to those in the White House are guilty of both War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. Mission Accomplices. Merry Christmas.
Footnotes: “Waterboarding and forced sodomy are "enhanced interrogation techniques" the same way shooting an unarmed suspect is "criminal justice." Torturing Abu Zubaydah “took precedence” over treating his bullet wound. One detainee was left nude from the waist down, chained to a concrete floor in the winter until he died of exposure. Victims were force fed rectally. One 'high value' prisoner was put in dark cell and forgotten there for 17 days. One man, suspected of having knowledge of pending attacks, was left in isolation and not questioned for 47 days. And about 20% of the victims were tortured to no end – they had no information and had been abducted and imprisioned by mistake. And so on.
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There are fine grain details in 'The Report' that were not known before. But we all knew, in general, this was the kind of thing that was going on, and is still going on, in the black world of secret everything. There is no integrity left in the government, from the POTUS, on down, in the War On Terrorism, or any other grand scheme. If the gubbmint wants anything bad enough, nothing is off the table.
remind me please, how the Nazis we hanged after Nuremberg were worse?
@Derek. "......." nuf said.
Or better yet...."because they lost?"
@Derek - the Nazi leadership that got hanged didn't bother with "plausible deniability."
Bill - I don't think "plausible" ever figured into it. More a willing suspension of disbelief - either we didn't want to believe they were doing it, or we wanted them to do it but didn't want them to tell us they were. In most of the important moral ways, all Americans are guilty of these crimes - just some more than others.
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