CIA torture report: human rights groups call for prosecutions – live

The Guardian ^ | 12/10/2014 | Tom McCarthy

[Rusty0604]

ACLU calls for special prosecutor on torture

How would prosecution of officials responsible for torture work? The ACLU is arguing that the justice department should appoint a special prosecutor:

To ensure that the investigation of the torture program is comprehensive and insulated from political interference, Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint a special prosecutor from within the Justice Department and transfer to that special prosecutor all of his authority to investigate and prosecute crimes relating to the program. A special prosecutor would be able to make prosecutorial decisions without having to seek the attorney general’s permission.

Lawyers for 9/11 suspects demand access to documents

“Cheryl Bormann can finally say the CIA hung her one-legged client from his wrists.”

That’s how Guardian national security editor Spencer Ackerman begins our report on “How the torture report could unravel prosecution of alleged 9/11 masterminds”:

By torturing the five men now being tried in the 9/11 military commission, the CIA may have jeopardized the US government’s ability to seek the death penalty, and perhaps jeopardized the case entirely.

[TexasCajun]

Obama continually stirs the pot of Anti-Americanism!

Obama welcomed the report that spotlights the CIA's efforts to save American lives.

Yet again, Obama sides with the Terrorist.

[Starstruck]

ACLU calls for special prosecutor on torture

Add killing American citizens with drones to that request.

[Vaduz]

Hang client from his wrists and inducing fear isn’t torture the left print another bogus report must keep hate America programs growing fuel the racism rage and riots yeah Obama&Co still on the job.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was a guy on the Don Imus program this morning, one of the actors from the movie The Godfather I think. Anyway he acted like a Mafioso tough guy and tossed around some Italian phrases.

He suggested a better way to make terrorists talk than waterboarding. Tie them to a chair and make them watch while their wives try to fold a road map. They'll talk.

[HotHunt]

This CIA report on alleged torture cost the US taxpayers $40 million. That fact by itself should be the news that's taken away from this report, not the stuff they packed in it to make the CIA look bad. And for what? Diane Feinstein is pissed because the CIA spied on the Intelligence committee. Well, duh, that's what spies do, they spy. She wanted this to come out to get back at the CIA for peeking under her covers. And the democRATS in general wanted this report out now before the Republicans take over the Senate in 3 weeks. No Republican approved of the report. It was all one-sided to make the CIA and America look bad. Not one person accused in the report was ever interviewed or called before the committee to explain their side of the story. And finally, the CIA briefed the Senate intelligence Committee previously on the stuff in the report and not one peep out of the liberal senators was heard then.

This report was all political and a personal vendetta by Feinstein. Some fine, upstanding leaders they have in that deomcRAT party, huh?

[tanknetter]

Yeah, but they do care about their own skins.

Prosecuting under these circumstances opens THEM up to prosecutions down the road. Once/should the worm turn.

[Pecos]

They didn’t crucify him, like the Taliban is reported to have done.

[MeshugeMikey]

the faux compassion of these amoral communist hacks is astoundingly repulsive

[Verginius Rufus]

John McCain took the opportunity to vent. I guess he can’t get over the fact that Bush beat him for the nomination in 2000.

[pierrem15]

1) statute of limitations?

2) the authorization to use military force specifically states, "by any means necessary," overriding any statutory prohibitions against torture

They have no case.

[Rusty0604]

“Tie them to a chair and make them watch while their wives try to fold a road map. They’ll talk.”

LOL

[DPMD]

Civil suits and calls for “reparations” can’t be too far behind.

[HotHunt]

McCain has only one thing left in his quiver to fall back on--his prisoner of war status. Other than that he is irrelevant in the Senate or to me. He's definitely irrelevant to conservatives, the RINO that he is. I used to live in Arizona for years and quit voting for him about three election cycles before I moved to Florida. He is not competent anymore. Time to retire McCain.