Posted on 12/14/2014 9:35:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on coercive tactics betrays intelligence officials and will erode their trust in future presidential administrations, a former CIA official who oversaw the agency’s enhanced interrogation program said Sunday.
Jose Rodriguez, who headed the agency’s counterterrorism section and its clandestine service, said that the Senate report “throws the CIA under this bus.” He predicted that intelligence officials would be undercut by “second-guessing” from the White House and Congress and warned that allied nations that have cooperated with U.S. intelligence in the past might reassess their aid. …
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If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.
— The Art Of War, XIII:19
Time for seven days in May
They'll be okay once the American people can retake Washington and Americans once again take control of our government.
This is worse than the bad move called The bay of Pigs!
The CIA doesn’t like this kind of stuff!!
Now, a question:
Would the “Secret Service” be called The Praetorian Guards, or would the C.I.A.?
Caesar was always reminded to take care of the Praetorian Guards, or they will take care of you.
Caligula and Hussein didn’t
Perhaps Obama’s day is coming
dear bert,
“Caligula and Hussein didn’t
Perhaps Obama’s day is coming”
Those who do not heed to history, are bound to repeat it, no?
Strange how lib talking points followed Russian ones...
Russia calls for prosecutions over ‘inquisition-style’ CIA interrogation methods
telegraph.co.uk ^ | December 11, 2014 | Tom Parfitt
Posted on 12/13/2014, 4:44:27 PM by Tailgunner Joe
Russia has called on the United States to punish those responsible for the use of “inquisition-style” interrogation methods in the “global war on terror”, as revealed in the US Senate report on torture this week.
Konstantin Dolgov, the human rights ombudsman of Russia’s foreign ministry, said the results of the “shocking” report were “the latest confirmation of gross, systemic human rights violations by the American authorities”. ....
The Senate report showed that “prisoners in secret torture chambers were subjected to inhuman, humiliating treatment” including waterboarding, sleep deprivation and threats against suspects’ families in order to “beat confessions out of often innocent people”, said Mr Dolgov.
“Despite the fact that such ‘inquisition-style’ tortures were used by CIA agents outside the territory of the United States, that does not remove responsibility for their deliberate actions,” he added. “There is also the question of complicity in these crimes by the governments of those countries - whose names were deleted from the report - which agreed to locate secret prisons on their territory.”
Mr Dolgov said that “the vast and most substantial part of the [torture] report - more than 6,700 pages” remained secret and the American authorities do not wish to publish it. “We call on the international human rights community and the relevant international organisations and structures to secure from Washington a disclosure of the whole spectrum of legal violations committed within the framework of the ‘global war on terror’, and the prosecution of those responsible.”
The ombudsman said the “dark page in history” that the torture represented was not closed because inmates were still being held without charge at Guantanamo. The situation, he added, “does not square with the United States’ pretensions to be a model democracy. That is far from the reality.”
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