catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:22 am Post subject: US engaged in torture |
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I know it this isn't exactly shocking news but there are still some deniers out there. (and supporters as well)
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nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that �it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture� and that the nation�s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.
The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been �the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.� The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, is to be released on Tuesday morning.
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