Avebarna courier

Washington Post 12-12-2014, por Kenneth Roth, exec director of Human Rights Watch

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cia-torturers-should-be-prosecuted/2014/12/12/f034acae-8159-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html 

The CIA torturers should be prosecuted

The primary international treaty against torture, the Convention against torture, which the United States ratified in 1994, contains two key requirements. First, it bans torture, without exception, as well as other inhumane treatment. Second, it requires that torturers be prosecuted.

President Obama has been firm in stopping torture. On his second day in office, he ordered an end to the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” — a euphemism for torture — and the closure of the secret CIA detention centers where torture was carried out.

But Obama has utterly failed in the second requirement. He has flatly refused to investigate the torture, let alone prosecute those responsible. (..)

2014-12-17

Very Important Torturers

NY Times 08-12-2014, por Mark Landler e Peter Baker
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/us/politics/white-house-and-gop-clash-over-torture-report.html

White House and Republicans Clash Over C.I.A. Torture Report

Bush, Rumsfeld & Cheney

   Foto Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Fonte: Internet

"That officials at the highest levels of government 

authorized and ordered torture is not in dispute.

  Mr. Bush issued a secret order authorizing the C.I.A.

 to build secret prisons overseas. The C.I.A. requested 

authority  to torture prisoners in those “black sites.” 

The National Security Council approved the request. 

And the Justice Department drafted memos providing

 the brutal program with a veneer of legality."

ANTHONY D. ROMERO, NYT DEC. 8, 2014

On the eve of a long-awaited Senate report on the use of torture by the United States government — a detailed account that will shed an unsparing light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s darkest practices after the September 2001 terrorist attacks — the Obama administration and its Republican critics clashed on Monday over the wisdom of making it public, and the risk that it will set off a backlash overseas.

(..) Former Vice President Dick Cheney added his voice to those of other Bush administration officials defending the C.I.A., declaring in an interview Monday that its harsh interrogations a decade ago were “absolutely, totally justified,” and dismissing allegations that the agency withheld information from the White House or inflated the value of its methods. (..) 

2014-08-12