CIA Destroys Torture Tapes: Immunity

CIA Admits Destroying Torture Videos/Tapes

"Purpose of eliciting false confessions"
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.html

"Legal" To Torture? Praise Bush.
Torture is Torture - is Waterboarding -
Enhanced Interrogation is Covered Up . . .
Torture is Torture is . . .

http://www.witnesstorture.org
http://www.whistleblowers.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VaYMld1f80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBUIqgCybt4

ABC News:
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4635175

Powell: "I'm not aware of anything that we discussed in any of those meetings that was not considered LEGAL."

Tenet: "It was authorized. It was LEGAL, according to the Attorney General of the United States."

Bush: "We Had LEGAL Opinions That Enabled Us To Do It."

U.S. Hid Detainees from Red Cross:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/41394.html
"The truth is that senior officials in the United States government sought information on aggressive techniques, twisted the law to create the appearance of their legality and authorized their use against detainees."

"The administration overrode or ignored objections from all four military services and from criminal investigators, who warned that the practices would imperil their ability to prosecute the suspects.
Regarding the ICRC, the United States long has complained that other countries such as China or the old Soviet Union prevented independent access to prisoners or made their conditions look better when outsiders were inspecting." China does it. The old Soviet Union used to do it. Thus, they were justified in. . . ?

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41514.html

Torture By Music: "According to US military authorities, it was God himself who first wrote the strategy of "Torture By Music" into the field manual.... Joshua's army used horns to strike fear into the hearts of the people of Jericho."
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/19/9734

War Crimes Committed and Justice Denied
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/18/9728

COINTELPRO Pure and Simple
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/21/10496

CIA Admits to Destroying More Interrogation Videos
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/02-7

CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Tapes
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/129611

John Yoo is Sorry for Nothing
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/10-3

Secret Bush Memos: Architecture of Hell
http://www.alternet.org/rights/133273/do_the_secret_bush_memos_amount_to_trea...

Torture (When Someone Else Does It)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/31/iwashington-posti-finally_n_181193.html

History Behind the CIA's Torture Techniques
http://www.alternet.org/rights/132743/the_long_and_sadistic_history_behind_th...

U.S. Tried to Bribe a Gitmo Prisoner Into Silence
http://www.alternet.org/rights/133218/how_the_u.s._tried_to_bribe_a_gitmo_pri...

C.I.A. Document Details Destruction of Tapes
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/us/16tapes.html

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