{"id":181694,"date":"2016-04-11T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/11\/of-course-dcia-brennans-not-telling-the-truth-his-lips-are-moving\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T23:15:00","slug":"of-course-dcia-brennans-not-telling-the-truth-his-lips-are-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/11\/of-course-dcia-brennans-not-telling-the-truth-his-lips-are-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course DCIA Brennan&#8217;s Not Telling the Truth.  His Lips are Moving."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <i>Emptywheel<\/i>, Marcy Wheeler observes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2016\/04\/11\/cia-officers-didnt-carry-out-waterboarding\/\">CIA Director John Brennan&#8217;s assurances that CIA officers would not torture people would not have ended any of the prior instances of torture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But it\u2019s funny, too, because Brennan\u2019s assurances about waterboarding  would hold true even for the period when CIA was waterboarding  detainees. <em>Because CIA officers didn\u2019t do the waterboarding<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: blue;\">As a reminder, at least four detainees were known to be waterboarded  under the Gloves Come Off Memorandum of Notification. The first, Ibn  Sheikh al-Libi, was waterboarded by Egyptian intelligence, though with  Americans present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The others were waterboarded as part of torture led by Mitchell and  Jessen, who were not CIA officers, but instead contractors. CIA officers  were definitely involved in that torture (as they were present for our  outsourced Egyptian torture). But the torture was technically done by  contractors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Don\u2019t get me wrong: CIA officers did engage in a whole lot of torture directly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But Brennan\u2019s squirmy language should only emphasize the fact that <em>even when CIA was in the business of waterboarding<\/em>,  CIA officers didn\u2019t do the waterboarding. So Brennan\u2019s guarantees that  CIA officers won\u2019t do so in the future are pretty meaningless  guarantees.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a surprise.&nbsp; Brennan has been objectively pro-torture for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The control of our state security apparatus has been ceded to people who aggressively pursue evil, self-destructive, and ineffective policies and programs.<\/p>\n<p>The down-slope of empire for your perusal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Emptywheel, Marcy Wheeler observes that CIA Director John Brennan&#8217;s assurances that CIA officers would not torture people would not have ended any of the prior instances of torture: \u2026\u2026\u2026 But it\u2019s funny, too, because Brennan\u2019s assurances about waterboarding would hold true even for the period when CIA was waterboarding detainees. Because CIA officers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1102,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-intelligence","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}