The New York Times is redeeming itself --excellent reporting in this lead article by Scott Shane about people CIA detained and tortured whom even the CIA believed were innocent--imagine a world devoid of such responsible journalism and at the mercy of the buffoonery of BBC! From the report: While the gruesome details of torture and the dispute over its results have drawn the greatest media coverage, the Senate report also represents the fullest public account by any branch of government of the C.I.A.’s secret prison program. It exposes some of the mistakes made in the agency’s rush to grab people with possible links to Al Qaeda in the first years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. . . . The U.S. caused a great deal of suffering to people who posed no threat,” said Anne FitzGerald, director of research and crisis response at Amnesty International, who visited Yemen eight times to talk to Mr. Bashmilah, Mr. Asad and others who appeared to be former C.I.A. detainees. “International standards are there for a reason — they protect everyone.”
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:34:35 +0000
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