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Imagine thinking the US just started sending people to torture prisons now. We had a worldwide network of black sites just to torture people, destroyed all the
by pessimizer 1y ago
Imagine thinking the US just started sending people to torture prisons now. We had a worldwide network of black sites just to torture people, destroyed all the videotapes, pardoned all the torturers, and made the person who destroyed the tapes the head of the CIA a few years later.
> once you start defying lawful orders, people are going to be scared that this same power can be used against them.
I feel like people only born yesterday could say this. There has been a bipartisan push for an Executive unfettered by the legislature since 9/11, and extreme partisans just point at each other. You're both right.
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- greenavocado 1y agoExactly. Anybody can go to Google Images and type "abu ghraib uncensored" to see how it's done.
- nativeit 1y ago...or watch Adam Driver give his character a stress disorder documenting the abuses in the major motion picture "The Report". I think the CIA torture program is pretty common knowledge at this point. That said, "common knowledge" might be a misnomer at this point.