CIA interrogations report sparks prosecution calls

BBC News ^ | December 10, 2014

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in what a Senate report called the "brutal" CIA interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects.

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson said that senior officials from the administration of George W Bush who planned and sanctioned crimes must be prosecuted, as well as CIA and US government officials responsible for torture such as waterboarding.

"As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice," Mr Emmerson said in a statement made from Geneva.

"The US attorney general is under a legal duty to bring criminal charges against those responsible."

Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said that the CIA's actions were criminal "and can never be justified".

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued that the attorney general should appoint a special prosecutor to conduct "an independent and complete investigation of Bush administration officials who created, approved, carried out and covered up the torture programme".

"The crime of torture has no statute of limitations when torture risks or results in serious injury or death, and the US government has the obligation under international law to investigate any credible evidence that torture has been committed," an ACLU statement said.

"If there's sufficient evidence of criminal conduct... The offenders should be prosecuted. In our system, no one should be above the law, yet only a handful of mainly low-level personnel have been criminally prosecuted for abuse. That is a scandal."

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[silverleaf]

um those “Bush administration officials” include the democrat controlled Senate and Congress who headed the oversight committees and program financing.

So OK! Let’s bring Di Fi and Pelosi up on charges!
Yippee Ki Yay

[GYPSY286]

Don’t know why everyone is getting their panties in a twist. Read some of the report - I did not read where the CIA operatives beheaded anyone, I did not read that anyone was taken to the 135 floor of a building and thrown out a window, I did not read that anyone was doused with gasoline and set on fire and I did not read that anyone was crucified. I do know that we have not had a 911 since 911. So what’s the problem? It worked!

[Liz]

The calculating Sen Feinstein endangered Americans----she used the torture report as a slapdown---as a weapon to save her Dumbocrat ***.........to stop the CIA's investigation of her dirty arms-related deals.

Back in Sept 2014, intel head Di/Fi was whining about the CIA looking through her computers and taking documents. Clearly, the CIA had plenty on her----even BEFORE the shocking Chi/Com missile scandal broke.

BACKSTORY: Di/Fi's known aversion to guns did not prevent her from honoring Cali's Raymond Chow---the key figure in Demorat state Sen Leland Yee's, shocking missile deal w/ China (Yee is a notorious gun-grabber stateside).

INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS:

<><>Feinstein heads the Senate Intel Committee;

<><> Her hubby Richard Blum made million as the lawyer for Chinese interests;

<><> gun-grabber Leland Yee knew where to get missiles, launchers, machine-guns etc;

<><> Raymond Chow was jailed, then freed when he professed to be a “really nice guy”.... honored by Di/Fi for working with local Chinese youths.

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EVERYBODY KNOWS THE DI/FI STORY COULD DWARF YEE'S ARMS DEAL: Taxpayers demand and investigation of Di/Fi's intel activities. <><> Did Di use her access to valuable US security data improperly? <><> Hubby Richard Blum made millions in China deals in past years. How'd he do that? <><> Is hubby cutting new deals w/ the Chi/Coms?

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ARE THE CLINTONS INVOLVED?----THIS DI/FI HILLARY SUCK-UP WAS VERY INSTRUCTIVE---DI even dropped the term "foreign policy" “In my view, she’s in the prime of her political life. She’s got the energy. She’s articulate. She’s got the background. She’s got the smarts. She has all of the elements of a good leader plus the fact, and this is not to be underestimated, she is enormously attractive to people,” she said on CNN's "State of the Union." “And she carries the torch for women who are the majority of votes in this country, very strongly and very high.”

Hillary's hefty income includes:

Hualuo CEO Forum (Spouse) Shanghai, China $550,000

Telefonaktiebolagel LM Ericsson AB (Spouse) Hong Kong, China $750,000

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WHAT DO DI/FI, HER HUBBY, HARRY REID, YEE, LEE AND CHOW KNOW ABOUT THIS?

Then-Pres Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security.

Here's just one of the endless examples: the Clintons cupidity is well-documented---shows Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that In January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets.

Not only did then-pres Clinton move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese.

Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.

The result? Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.

Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.

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[Netz]

Abuses or not, the timing is what I call “Obama-Perfect”. With all the heat the President is taking for many issues, this is they key time, the “Obama-Perfect” time, to release Bush-era revelations. The timing just proves what we've been saying all along, for the last 6 years, “Bush did it”.
“Obama-perfect” timing is crucial right now as it “proves” Bush was a (in Obama’s eyes) “War Criminal” while his administration release GITMO terrorists...

Bush did it, Bush this, Bush that!

[Liz]

WAKE UP-CALL The Clintons have received zillions from the Chi/Coms---we all assumed it was going to their three tax-exempt foundations. Now here's another angle (think money-laundering, and kickbacks).

The Harry Reid connection to the tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation needs to be investigated.

PUT ON YOUR TINFOIL HATS TO CONNECT THE DOTS:

(1) Harry Reid's son Rory is in business w/ the Chi/Coms on a multi-billion dollar solar energy project; Cliven Bundy and his land are standing in the way.

(2) Reports say Bill Clinton recently went to China to panhandle for his tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation.

(3) The "Clinton Global Initiative" (NOT KNOWN for giving out grants)---gave Harry Reid's granddaughter a grant for a Brooklyn, NY theatre she runs (what is a Brooklyn theatre's connection to "global initiatives?")

(4) A Nevada energy company also gave Reid's granddaughter's theatre group a grant.

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"Money laundering" comes to mind. Could the Chinese be financing the Reid's solar project through donations to theClinton Foundations....which is then laundered to Reid's granddaughter?

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REFERENCE----HARRY REID IS LIVID THAT HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER HAS BEEN OUTED AS A RECIPIENT OF LAUNDERED CAMPAIGN CASH---Reid lashed out at reporters, saying, “My granddaughter has been the target of harassing phone calls, strangers tracking her down, knocking on her door and negative, unwanted attention on the Internet.” “This has gone too far and it needs to stop now,” Reid said. “I deeply regret any role I had in creating this situation but now, as a grandparent, I say enough is enough.”

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Besides the "jewelry company" financed by her grandfather, Ryan Elisabeth Reid runs the Sprat Theater Company, a small theater in Brooklyn, which is also coming under scrutiny. According to Sprat’s Theatre Company Web site, it has received grants/contributions from:

<><> the Clinton Global Initiative (connected to global terrorism via Muslim Brotherhood employee),
<><> two major Las Vegas foundations:
Caesar’s Foundation, and the NV Energy Foundation.

NOTE NV Energy Foundation---is a non-profit division of NV Energy (a public utility). The NV Energy utility is a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company which took over in 2013....and is now owned by a Warren Buffet unit.

Harry w/ grand-daughter Ryan Elizabeth Reid.

[Java4Jay]

The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials

This is why the report was released

[McGruff]

“UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson” should ask the 9/11 families for their view. Maybe he will end up being prosecuted.

[The_Media_never_lie]

So, they water boarded 3 suspected mass murderer plotters, and the democrat traitors insist, ten years later, on prosecuting the patriots?

[lormand]

Conversely, those who give aid and comfort to the enemy should be charged and tried for treason.

[tomkat]

             

[fwdude]

I get the sinking feeling that the “brutal torture” techniques inflicted on our mortal enemies was something on the order of speech that scared them, or interrupting their sleep.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The blood will be on Di Fi’s hands.
For as long as she lives.

[ThunderSleeps]

Exactly right. Even the "we can't sink to their level" crowd has to agree that we have come no-where near their level. They, A-Q, declared war on us. I don't care if they called it that, we called it that, or not - that's what it is and it isn't over yet.

For any lib lurkers out there who are part of the unicorns and fairy dust world most libs live in understand this: war is brutal. Sure, waterboarding and other techniques no-doubt suck. So does having your plane crash. So does having your office building collapse. So does having a limb blown off and bleeding out. War is a messy, dirty, ugly business full of pain and misery. That is why it is best never to start one that can be avoided, and to end it as quickly as possible using every tool at your disposal.

[yldstrk]

Waterboarding is not patriotic, don’t you know, you don’t sink to the depravity of your enemy because as Pogo you become just as bad as they are.

[Henry Hnyellar]

Nonsense. By you logic, dropping bombs, shooting a gun and rolling a tank aren’t patriotic. Get rid of the entire military. We don’t want to be like “them!”

[MrB]

This has already been investigated by (Dick) Holder’s Just Us department and they decided not to prosecute.

[MeshugeMikey]

rumor has it that the reid grandaughter was used as a tool of torture

[Liz]

Yikes-—that is scary.

[Aleya2Fairlie]

Decisions, decisions! Which terrorist group’s demands do we bow before and meet first? Should it be blacks?Communist/Marxists? Illegals? Sexual perverts? Muslims? Or should we just get it over with all at once and become Liberals? /s