{"id":187295,"date":"2013-04-16T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/16\/we-tortured\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T01:27:00","slug":"we-tortured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/16\/we-tortured\/","title":{"rendered":"We Tortured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/1IPmi.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/>A bipartisan panel convened by the Constitution Project has concluded that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/16\/world\/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html\">torture was practiced, and was approved by our most senior leaders<\/a>, and, perhaps more importantly, <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">actually use the word torture<\/span><\/b>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that \u201cit is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture\u201d and that the nation\u2019s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that \u201cit is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture\u201d and that the nation\u2019s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The use of torture, the report concludes, has \u201cno justification\u201d and \u201cdamaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive.\u201d The task force found \u201cno firm or persuasive evidence\u201d that these interrogation methods produced valuable information that could not have been obtained by other means. While \u201ca person subjected to torture might well divulge useful information,\u201d much of the information obtained by force was not reliable, the report says. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The core of the report, however, may be an appendix: a detailed 22-page legal and historical analysis that explains why the task force concluded that what the United States did was torture. It offers dozens of legal cases in which similar treatment was prosecuted in the United States or denounced as torture by American officials when used by other countries. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, they do not take a position on prosecutions, which means that their warnings on the US returning to torture are pretty toothless.<\/p>\n<p>The people who conducted, and ordered, torture should be sent to a Federal &#8220;Pound Me in the Ass&#8221; prison for a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan panel convened by the Constitution Project has concluded that torture was practiced, and was approved by our most senior leaders, and, perhaps more importantly, actually use the word torture: A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that \u201cit is indisputable &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1182,1009,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-george-w-bush","category-government","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187295"}],"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=187295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}