{"id":192584,"date":"2009-03-16T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/16\/red-cross-uses-the-t-word\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T04:16:00","slug":"red-cross-uses-the-t-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/16\/red-cross-uses-the-t-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross Uses the &#8216;T&#8217; Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the &#8220;T&#8221; word, I mean that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/15\/AR2009031502724.html\">used the word torture to describe the treatment of detainees by the CIA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration&#8217;s treatment of al-Qaeda captives &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">constituted torture<\/span>,&#8221; a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.<\/p>\n<p>The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA &#8220;black site&#8221; prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to &#8220;cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.&#8221; Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>When do we either start prosecutions, or turn them over the Hague?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the &#8220;T&#8221; word, I mean that they used the word torture to describe the treatment of detainees by the CIA: The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration&#8217;s treatment of al-Qaeda captives &#8220;constituted torture,&#8221; a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192584"}],"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=192584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}