Friday, December 12, 2008

"Senior officials authorized torture", so says the Senate

Well, the Senate has done their job. When's the last time you heard that? Senate Armed Services finally realized their report about "abusive techniques" (i.e. torture) that the US used, and the results aren't a surprise. Bi partisan agreement that we screwed up badly:
“Attempts by senior officials to pass the buck to low-ranking soldiers while avoiding any responsibility for abuses are unconscionable,” Levin said. “The message from top officials was clear: It was acceptable to use degrading and abusive techniques against detainees.”

McCain said, “The committee’s report details the inexcusable link between abusive interrogation techniques used by our enemies who ignored the Geneva Conventions and interrogation policy for detainees in U.S. custody. These policies are wrong and must never be repeated.”

So now the question is: who, if anybody, are we going to prosecute for this? Allowing only lower ranking service members or CIA agents to take the fall for this would be a disgrace. And now that Obama is president, we don't have to tolerate "disgraces" any more, do we?

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