What’s important to note about this is that it does NOT include the CIA’s rendition program – where the CIA would kidnap people and send them to Mubarak in Egypt, Assad in Syria, Gaddafi in Libya and have them torture / outsource torture. That’s some other report for a different day I guess. I don’t think that one has ever been done. This report also does not include the military’s role in the torture whatsoever. So usually when somebody says “torture / Bush Administration”, you think of Abu Ghraib. Well all of that was under Donald Rumsfeld and the Special Forces. That was under the military. Stanley McChrystal, the guy who lost the Afghan War, he also ran a torture prison at a place called ‘Camp Nama’ in Iraq. And there’s all kinds of reports – there’s a ‘Ta Guba’ report, and Inspector General reports, and books and books – and all this other work on the military’s role and really the bulk – really thousands and thousands of people were tortured by the military in these prisons during the occupations and really all over the place – in their own homes, on the side of the road, etc., during those occupations. And including more than 100 died in custody – many of those were literally tortured to death. Outright homicides during torture – all under the military. So this CIA report is a much narrower focus. It’s about the people who were abducted by the CIA and taken to various black sites under CIA control and tortured by CIA officers and their contractor agents working for them. So , it’s important I think to note, just how narrow a focus this is for as much horror that is in there. It’s far from any kind of whole story. https://youtube/watch?v=aDQLXZwR4KM
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:17:06 +0000
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