Posted on 03/16/2009 4:57:40 PM PDT by markomalley
posted March 16, 2009 at 10:35 am EST
•A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) concluded in 2007 that US methods to extract information from prisoners at secret CIA jails as part of the "war on terror" amounted to torture, according to excerpts from a confidential report published on the website of the The New York Review of Books on Sunday.
With US President Barack Obama on record as backing the prosecution of officials involved in "clear instances of wrongdoing," the report could fuel calls for such legal action.
Though allegations of the torture of terror suspects at CIA-run "black sites" have been widely detailed before, the Red Cross report has "an unusual claim to authenticity," the article's author, Mark Danner, wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times.
The article in the Times quoted the report's conclusion:
The allegations of ill-treatment of the detainees indicate that, in many cases, the ill-treatment to which they were subjected while held in the CIA program, either singly or in combination, constituted torture. In addition, many other elements of the ill-treatment, either singly or in combination, constituted cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
The International Committee of the Red Cross interviewed detainees in late 2006 after they had been moved to the US detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The report was not for public release, but for top CIA and other US government officials' eyes only. It was given to them in February 2007 and labeled "confidential."
The Review article ended by noting that many human rights advocates "urge investigations and prosecutions" of Bush officials who adopted the antiterror methods alleged
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The question I have is this: if one of them gets impatient at Ø (I don't think Ø will actually want to open that can of worms) and takes a shot at Bush...how will Ø react?
This is the second reason I stopped giving blood at the red cross and just started donating it to the local hospital.
The problem seems to be that since they have been tortured, any information they provide - even if accurate - in inadmissible in any court of law. So they cannot be tried for their crimes using that evidence.
US methods to extract information from prisoners at “secret CIA jails” ....................... What am I missing here? They can’t be too secret if they know about them and can make comments on how bad things are there.
could bolster calls for legal action against the Bush administration. ...................... Now, that is what it is really about!!!!
has there actually been a single documented case of ‘torture’ yet??
PUHLEESE...don't let the facts get in the way of the allegations. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it. Therefore, it must be Truth, irrespective of the facts in the case.
Got it straight, yet?
Me too. I give at Indiana Blood Center.
There is no problem if the information they give helps to prevent future terrorist actions. In a foreign country you can kill the terrorists.
In the US, Clinton and Obama give them pardons. That is the problem.
Solution: Key them in a foreign country or shoot them.
Hey mahn, no problem!
But I digress, fact of the matter is, these terrorists should have been shot in the field according to the Geneva Conventions you so gladly pronounce.
Ya'all are a bunch of richard craniums.
5.56mm
DITTO
Rumor is that the Red Cross did not leak this story....find out who did and you will learn more about why this is a big deal.
My travels have disqualified me from giving blood, but it would have given me some pleasure to give them some other reason.
>has there actually been a single documented case of ‘torture’ yet??
Yep...it’s called living under an Obama regime.
More panties on the head? We should be ashamed for such torture...
Cutting off somebody's head with a dull knife, though - that's torture.
Some islamofacist terrorist that want to destroy my Nation and kill my fellow citizens were what the red cross calls tortured?
And your point was what????
I certainly hope these scumbags were tortured, even if only pour encourager les autres.
WHO GIVES A S*** ABOUT THE TORTURE OF TERRORISTS. DID THEY NOT TORTURE AMERICANS AND ALLIED COUNTRIES CITIZENS? DO THEY NOT PREACH A HATRED OF THE VERY PRINCIPLES AMERICA AND MANY OF HER ALLIES STAND FOR? THAN WHAT DO WE CARE IF THESE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY ARE PUNISHED JUSTIFIABLE?
I don’t donate to the Red Cross anymore. They’ve become too political.
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