{"id":185699,"date":"2014-09-03T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/03\/james-foley-was-tortured-before-being-beheaded-because-we-tortured\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T00:24:00","slug":"james-foley-was-tortured-before-being-beheaded-because-we-tortured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/03\/james-foley-was-tortured-before-being-beheaded-because-we-tortured\/","title":{"rendered":"James Foley was Tortured Before Being Beheaded Because We Tortured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Froomkin, in a post on the continuing efforts by the US state security apparatus to use redactions on the Senate torture report to conceal the nature torture<\/a>, gives us this tidbit:<\/p>\n

Feinstein also agreed with<\/span> [NBC reporter Andrea] Mitchell\u2019s suggestion that Islamic militants in Syria tortured Americans \u2014 including journalist James Foley, who was reportedly waterboarded before being beheaded \u2014 in a \u201crebuke\u201d to the U.S. for its own use of torture during the Bush administration.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cThe United States military has always prevented any kind of torture or waterboarding because they felt that then, whatever the enemy was, would come back and do it to our people,\u201d she said. \u201cIn this case, the enemy came back and did it to one of our citizens.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, torture does not work, and it gets our guys tortured.<\/p>\n

BTW, it’s clear that the CIA is attempting to change the conclusions of the report through supposedly security related redactions:<\/p>\n

Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein expects the executive summary of her staff\u2019s long-awaited report on the torture of American detainees to be ready for public release before the end of September, she said in an unaired segment of her \u201cMeet the Press\u201d interview this weekend (starts at 10:25 of the video<\/a>).<\/span>

<\/span>The torture report, which was five years in the making, was sent to the White House for declassification in April. But the exhaustive redactions that Obama administration officials sent back in early August included such things as the elimination of pseudonyms, apparently to make the report too confusing to follow, and the blacking out of copious supporting evidence, such as proof that information derived from torture actually came from other intelligence sources.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cWhat we are engaged in is working with the administration to see that the redaction is such that it does not destroy the report,\u201d Feinstein told NBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell. \u201cIf you redact the evidence \u2014 heavily \u2014 then we cannot sustain our findings. We will not put out a report that does not enable us to sustain our findings. And I believe that that is understood. <\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>People who have seen the report\u2019s executive summary have told reporters that it discloses abuse that was more brutal, systematic and widespread than generally recognized \u2014 and presents extensive evidence that officials most closely linked to the torture regime lied to others inside the CIA and the Justice Department, as well as to Congress and the public, about what they were doing, what they had done, and what it accomplished.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The evidence is quite clear at this point:  The CIA is actively obstructing the oversight process, and as such, it should have no input whatsoever<\/b> in clearing the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report.<\/p>\n

Obama should, but won’t, remove the security review process from the CIA, so the Senate Committee should do release it on it’s own, as its right under statute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Froomkin, in a post on the continuing efforts by the US state security apparatus to use redactions on the Senate torture report to conceal the nature torture, gives us this tidbit: Feinstein also agreed with [NBC reporter Andrea] Mitchell\u2019s suggestion that Islamic militants in Syria tortured Americans \u2014 including journalist James Foley, who was …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,969,1102,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-evil","category-intelligence","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185699"}],"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=185699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}