| Topic: |
Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"William PF" |
| Date: |
16 May 2004 09:00:19 AM |
| Object: |
New Yorker: Rumsfeld personaly approved torture policy |
And here comes more evidence of Rumsfeld's complicity in the torture
of detainees. Notice that the sources of this are "from the
intelligence community", Bush's scapegoat of convenience. These are
the same people that Bush scapegoated for the WMD debacle and again
it sounds like a lot of them do not feel like they deserve all of the
blame.
Let me say it one more time for the republigoons that lurk around
here: A country that at it's highest level government officials design
and personally supervise torture policies cannot be a democracy and
folks, with the exception of the oil rich Persian gulf states there is
no prosperous country on the face of this earth that is not a
democracy. The instigators and perpetrators of these abominable
policies must be be brought to justice no matter how high up they are
in government or, if not, the people who condone and support such
policies are no doubt going to push the envelope a little further next
time around and the tortured might be American citizens.
WASHINGTON, (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved a
secret program that encouraged interrogation methods used at Abu
Ghraib prison, where Iraqi prisoners were abused, The New Yorker
magazine reports.
Rumsfeld had approved "a highly secret operation" last year, which
"encouraged physical coercion and the sexual humiliation of Iraqi
prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing
insurgency in Iraq (news - web sites)," New Yorker investigative
reporter Seymour Hersh wrote, citing current and former intelligence
officials.
Excerpts of Hersh's report have been released ahead of publication
this week.
The Pentagon (news - web sites) said Hersh's report was "outlandish,
conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture."
"No responsible official of the Department of Defense (news - web
sites) approved any program that could conceivably have been intended
to result in such abuses as witnessed in the recent photos and
videos," Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said in a statement.
The New Yorker reported that the clandestine Defense Department
operation was known as a Special-Access Program (SAP).
Its rules were: "Grab whom you must. Do what you want," according to
one former intelligence official cited by Hersh.
Rumsfeld's decision to import such techniques into Iraq, after their
use in Afghanistan (news - web sites), was opposed by members of US
intelligence organizations, the report said.
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