Torture with Consequences

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/News/243181/torture-with-consequences/

Warsaw has permitted the CIA to arrest and torture terrorist suspects on its soil. This shames not only the Polish government but also the image of the United States as a nation of constitutional laws.

Torture with Consequences
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
By Klaus Brill
Translated By Ron Argentati
24 July 2014
Edited by Lau­rence Bouvard

When George W. Bush finished his second term in January 2009, several commentators in the U.S. media came to the conclusion that the nation had never had a worse president.

The name George W. Bush was connected with two disastrous wars, as well as a list of other problems with which his successor Barack Obama continues to deal today. That includes everything related to the name Guantanamo, a synonym for the systematic violation of basic democratic principles, such as the lengthy imprisonment and abuse, all without benefit of court trial and legal representation, of hundreds of individuals suspected of being Islamic terrorists swept up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

An off-shoot of the Guantanamo system was also introduced by secret CIA teams, whereby such suspects were flown to other nations where they were interrogated and tortured. Fifty-four governments are said to have been complicit in this practice, among them not only rogue regimes like Syria, but also European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Romania.

The governments of those three nations deny, obfuscate or refuse to comment, but what else can these U.S. allies do? They are under enormous pressure, especially now in view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to seek the support of the United States, which doesn't want to be publicly pilloried and prefers to just ignore the subject.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. This is as HUGE problem

The leaking of this program that keeps Americans safe makes us unsafe. Danger lurking everywhere. See that sneaker? Looks like a sneaker, but it's actually al Queda! See that cracker?...