Because no one involved with the enterprise deserves a penny of money.<\/p>\n
Glenn Greenwald rightly calls it a, “CIA hagiography, [and] pernicious propaganda<\/a>.” <\/p>\n Spencer Ackerman, of Danger Room<\/i>, admires the torture scenes and how they show moral ambiguity<\/a>, but this is completely wrong.<\/p>\n You see, in a private letter to members of Congress Leon Panetta stated that torture had no role in locating bin Laden<\/a>, though in public, he continued to defend the CIA’s torture directorate in public.<\/p>\n There is no ambiguity here<\/span><\/b>. Our torture served no purpose but to satisfy the sadism of certain elements of the state security apparatus, along with people above them in the chain of command. **cough** Dick Cheney **cough** <\/p>\n There is no ambiguity. We did not derive actionable intelligence from torture. All we did was give Dick Cheney an erection.<\/p>\n FWIW,it should that the the European Court of Human Rights has officially declared that the CIA engaged in systematic torture<\/a>. (See also here<\/a>)<\/p>\n The fact that Obama and Holder have been complicit in indemnifying, and covering this up makes them more than reprehensible human beings, it makes them war criminals as well.<\/p>\n (on edit<\/i>)<\/p>\n I am not suggesting that you torrent Bigelow’s other works, though I wouldn’t object to it. I’m not gonna watch any of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because no one involved with the enterprise deserves a penny of money. Glenn Greenwald rightly calls it a, “CIA hagiography, [and] pernicious propaganda.” Spencer Ackerman, of Danger Room, admires the torture scenes and how they show moral ambiguity, but this is completely wrong. You see, in a private letter to members of Congress Leon Panetta …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,1032,1051,1064,978,1076,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-hypocrisy","category-media","category-politics","category-terrorism","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183693"}],"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=183693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}