Courtesy of Mish.
As horrific as the CIA torture revelations were, please understand that most of the investigation is still classified. I have to wonder, what’s in the report we did not see.
Although I commend senator Dianne Feinstein for making sure excerpts of the CIA torture report saw the light of day, her efforts did not go far enough.
Feinstein should have published the entire document. I suspect that would have ended the controversy once and for all. Instead we have noting but a pack of lies about the use of the intelligence gathered from the likes of Dick Cheney.
Outsourced Terror
Even had Feinstein published the entire report, please understand there are hundreds if not thousands of horrific stories of CIA-sponsored torture that aren’t in the Senate report.
The Salon has details in its report on Outsourced Terror.
The executive summary released last week makes only passing reference to an integral component of the CIA program: the “extraordinary rendition” of prisoners to foreign custody for “interrogation” by those countries’ intelligence services—with the full knowledge that the men would be tortured.
Because rendition was beyond the report’s scope, there’s still no official account of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other victims of torture that the CIA is responsible for.
As the Washington Post revealed in 2005, the CIA identified two categories of prisoners for detention and interrogation: “high value” detainees that the agency held onto and “second tier” ones who were farmed out for detention and interrogation to other governments. As former CIA officer Bob Baer explained in disturbing detail, “If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear—never to see them again—you send them to Egypt.”
Mistakes Irrelevant
Of course, torturing or even killing the wrong guys does not matter to Dick Cheney. He had the gall to say “I’d do it again”.
New York Times Asks Obama to Prosecute Cheney
At long last, someone besides a few bloggers like myself has taken the right stand….
