by krAzykrAkr01
Is torture really something the U.S. wants to get involved with? It will be hard to convince anyone that we are on the side of truth and justice if we do. I mean, we are already involved in torture, but if the people responsible are not tried and convicted, we are all involved in torture. Every American on the planet, because we did nothing about it. I don’t really understand what this country is changing in to. To admit that we torture? Hell even the scumbags don’t admit that they torture. They may do it, but they don’t admit it.
The Associated Press reports:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed “in good faith” that harsh techniques used to break prisoners’ will would not cause “prolonged mental harm.”
That heavily censored memo, released Thursday, approved the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques method by method, but warned that if the circumstances changed, interrogators could be running afoul of anti-torture laws.
The Aug. 1, 2002, legal opinion signed by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee was issued the same day he wrote a memo for then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales defining torture as only those “extreme acts” that cause pain similar in intensity to that caused by death or organ failure.
What, exactly, would you confess to, if they hooked the electrical nodes to your nodes? I think we all know the answer to that question. Anything they want us to confess to. That is the problem with torture. The information you get from it is likely no good. There going to tell you exactly what you want to hear to get you to stop, regardless if it is true or not. Knowing that, torture is just to satisfy the sadistic pleasures of the ones administering it.
The AP story goes on to say:
The new documents indicate that senior Bush administration officials were aware of the controversial and potentially problematic use of certain interrogation methods, including waterboarding.
In a second memo, dated Jan. 28, 2003, then-CIA Director George Tenet authorized CIA officers to interrogate a terror suspect using an “enhanced technique” and ordered a record to be kept of it as the interrogation was happening. It was not clear whether such a record would be taken via notes, videotape or audiotape, but it was to include the “nature and duration of each such technique employed, the identities of those present” and other factors.
If we willingly go down this road, then I don’t know how we are any better than the terrorists we supposedly fight. I don’t think we would be much different than the Nazi’s, that we fought to defeat 60+ years ago. Is that what we have become? Nazi’s? If you look around, at the police state we currently live in, you might think so. When they are done with these terrorists, who do think they will come for next? And they will already have all the laws in place before they come, so they can torture you, too.