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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts) Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:24 PM Dec 2014

The senate torture report is hideous, horrifying, but it is a whitewash.

This was not a truth and reconciliation event. This was not opening the STASI archives. This was a government that has committed war crimes and likely is continuing to commit war crimes investigating itself and deciding what to report.

This report is a turd floating on the top of a cesspool. We have no idea how deep that cesspool is.

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The senate torture report is hideous, horrifying, but it is a whitewash. (Original Post) Warren Stupidity Dec 2014 OP

There should a special prosecuter appointed and public hearings held. Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #1

By what authority? The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #3

I agree. Nothing will happen other than platitudes about "patriots" and "necessary measures". Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #4

Only the press can whitewash it. kentuck Dec 2014 #2

Well both Andrea Mitchell and Ashleigh Banfield malaise Dec 2014 #5

Soldiers and\or mercenaries sodomizing children in front of their parents. I don't KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #6

I look at it as X3 underpants Dec 2014 #7

Absolutely. n/t 2naSalit Dec 2014 #8

I agree. Solly Mack Dec 2014 #9

It's also superfluous nichomachus Dec 2014 #10

K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #11

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

1. There should a special prosecuter appointed and public hearings held.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:31 PM

Dec 2014

And, public trials of the torturers and their bosses.

The2ndWheel

(7,947 posts)

3. By what authority?

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:38 PM

Dec 2014

1. US
2. UN
3. Everyone else

Nobody listens to the UN anyway, and especially if it isn't backed up by the US military. I don't see us bombing ourselves, and I don't see any economic sanctions coming our way. The US government wouldn't have done the torture if it was planning on prosecuting anyone.

Ain't nothing going to happen, and we'll all keep paying our bills at the end of every month.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

4. I agree. Nothing will happen other than platitudes about "patriots" and "necessary measures".

Reply to The2ndWheel (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:46 PM

Dec 2014

And, more future war criminals will be elected and issue more platitudes when torture continues to be policy.

kentuck

(111,052 posts)

2. Only the press can whitewash it.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:33 PM

Dec 2014

The Senate has put out enough information to inform the American people.

malaise

(268,686 posts)

5. Well both Andrea Mitchell and Ashleigh Banfield

Reply to kentuck (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:48 PM

Dec 2014

tried their best by cutting off Feinstein and having their favorite hacks express their opinions.

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)

6. Soldiers and\or mercenaries sodomizing children in front of their parents. I don't

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:51 PM

Dec 2014

think it can get much deeper than that.

N.B. Still an unsubstantiated rumor but, then, we haven't seen the full 6,000-page report, nor have there been any trials whatsoever, except for a few low-level enlisted grunts from Abu Ghraib. (Think the highest they got was a Staff Sergeant.)

underpants

(182,603 posts)

7. I look at it as X3

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:53 PM

Dec 2014

There were no interviews. The CIA contractors got to review internal emails before the researchers for the Senate had to sit at one computer in one location to look through the emails. Etc.

Not only did most DU'ers already know a lot of what was released today but take what they released and multiply it by at least 3. It is bigger and worse than this report makes it out to be.

2naSalit

(86,323 posts)

8. Absolutely. n/t

Reply to underpants (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 04:49 PM

Dec 2014

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)

9. I agree.

Reply to underpants (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 04:55 PM

Dec 2014

I'm reading the report and a lot of what I'm reading I already knew from past news stories and ACLU reports. (and other human rights groups)

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)

10. It's also superfluous

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 04:59 PM

Dec 2014

There are some added details, but we knew most of this 10 years ago. We knew enough. We knew enough to impeach Bush and Cheney. We knew enough to put people in jail. We knew enough. We knew enough to stop it. We didn't.

WillyT

(72,631 posts)

11. K & R !!!

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:01 PM

Dec 2014

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