CIA Lawyer Suddenly Finds Urgency on Detainee Treatment
from ThinkProgress:
At the American Bar Association’s conference on national security yesterday, CIA senior deputy general counsel John Rizzo recommended that President-elect Barack Obama “address immediately detainee issues at Guantanamo Bay and in the CIA’s interrogation program.” Rizzo said that the agency’s interrogation and detainee program needs “urgent” attention:
The CIA detention and interrogation program, he said, is just as urgent. “That’s going to have to be dealt with immediately,” Rizzo said. “We do not have the luxury to wait and muddle through.” He knows how tough the issue is–his involvement in helping the CIA construct the program earned him opposition in Congress that killed his nomination to be the CIA’s general counsel.
The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman did not report whether Rizzo said anything specific about how the program needs to be “dealt” with. This information would be important since, as Gorman notes, Rizzo controversially helped construct the program that pushed the boundaries of torture.
In 2002, while serving as an acting general counsel, Rizzo approved of a memo drafted by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee that stretched the definition of torture in order to make it permissible for use in the course of an interrogation. Asked at a June 2007 confirmation hearing if he “should have objected at the time” to Bybee’s definition of torture, Rizzo replied, “I can’t say I should have objected at the time.”
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posted by Sharon at
3:15 PM
2 Comments:
Torture is a US standard and a world standard by now, the CIA did much of the world training and made those governments our friends like Sadaam Hussein was before BUSH menopause, It also does not matter if Obama is president or not, regardless the US stops torture the rest of the world won't, One thing I learned is that the US society lives in a state of mental torture daily, in many cases it affect the teenagers a lot more than if affect adults, the mind of child is much more sensitive and could lead to the massacres and killings we see among one day good clean cut teens turn murderers without knowing why the urge to kill, so if we can afford to sicken our teens, if we can afford to TV TORTURE our teens, why not torture the enemy, I know that the rest of the world won't stop torturing a good clean cut American folk, because they are sick of us to, invading and killing their society and way of living, with SADDAM HUSSEIN Iraq it was a safer nation.
Yet I am against torture, but make it all the way dudes.
The School of The Americas trained death squads, and torturers. The CIA has been involved for years in torture. When pics of Abu Graib were revealed, only Americans were stunned- the worlds population has had to suffer this sickening indignity for decades. The true history of our country's methods of intervention around the world have been kept from the average citizen. Reading; instead of TV and video games would do us a world of good!
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