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If faux-patriotic warmongers hadn't tortured anyone in 1st place-there would be no fucking report
No, releasing a report endangers nobody!Actually TORTURING people endangered those lives!
If the faux-patriotic warmongers hadn't tortured anyone in the first place, there would be no fucking report.
"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require.
Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country."
- George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
The defense failed, and the accused were convicted. Note that the Germans were able to demonstrate a process of maintaining discipline and punishing officers who disobeyed the rules of verschärfte Vernehmung (enhanced interrogation). By contrast, the Bush Administration has arguably (not) brought a single case of prosecution, against hundreds of documented cases of extreme abuse — including a great number documented by the FBI. So while there are distinctions to be drawn between the German practice of verschärfte Vernehmung and the Bush Administration’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” a good many of these distinctions cut in favor of the Germans.
And let’s recall: what was the sentence the Norwegian war crimes court deemed appropriate for those convicted of the use of verschärfte Vernehmung? Death.
http://harpers.org/blog/2007/06/defending-enhanced-interrogation-techniques/
And let’s recall: what was the sentence the Norwegian war crimes court deemed appropriate for those convicted of the use of verschärfte Vernehmung? Death.
http://harpers.org/blog/2007/06/defending-enhanced-interrogation-techniques/
and yet........
