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This is horrific. Just reading the findings and conclusions section is astounding. Embarrassing and shameful day for the USA.
by ProAm 12y ago
This is horrific. Just reading the findings and conclusions section is astounding. Embarrassing and shameful day for the USA.
- addicted 12y agoI am pretty sure today isn't the shameful day.
- ProAm 12y agoI'm pretty ashamed today as a US citizen, but I get what you are saying. Sad thing is I bet we are still doing this.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoToday we should be embarrassed. Next week when the news moves on to the next celebrity breakup, and nearly everyone forgets about this, that is the real shame.
- andyjohnson0 12y ago(Page 56) Specifically, the interrogation techniques that went unreported in CIA cables included standing sleep deprivation in which a detainee's arms were shackled above his head, nudity, dietary manipulation, exposure to cold temperatures, cold showers, "rough takedowns," and, in at least two instances, the use of mock executions Mock executions...
- ep103 12y agoI don't see any section called findings and conclusions
- lotharbot 12y agopage 9 of the pdf.
- nraynaud 12y agoI am not an American, but I have one specific positive point to say about that: generally the only way to get a country to acknowledge the horror it did is to invade it and trial the leaders (Germany WWII: trial, Iraq against kurds: trial, France Vichy: nothing substantial, France colonial wars: amnesty, USSR: nothing, Yugoslavia: trial, without real invasion). In this instance, nobody is in court (if we ignore Poland), but at least there is some admission.
- pmr_ 12y agoIt is easy to forget that this is just a report and up to this point it hasn't had any real consequences yet. If this will ever lead to anything (be it criminal charges, convictions or change in policy) is still open.
- nraynaud 12y agoI don't think it will lead to anything, not more than the 11th september 1973, or the whole Operation Condor. There is no balance of powers around the CIA.