Criminal.

George Tennant, who was the CIA director, and liar-in-chief to the Senate. And Condi Rice has some culpability in this as well. Cheney is an easy target, because he's always spouting his corrupt mouth off. Tennant thinks his silence will keep him under the radar.

Why do these evil fuckers always get away with such a major thing that effects us all.

creating this travesty, John Yoo, Condi, Tennant et al, all of them!!!!! Cruel, evil people who knew exactly what they were doing and what it would entail. I believe.

Whole damned thing dies.

Get Cheney, the rest will follow...

What, you were thinking W was the head?

I have to agree....

It's total crap.

He was deputy director when the director resigned and took over as Director. Clinton's nomination was blocked by Republicans and Tenet was unanimously appointed to the post by the Senate.

Therefore, since EVERYBODY approved him expect to watch EVERYBODY take turns throwing him under the bus.

due process...the whole thing was a criminal enterprise.

Sweeping it under the carpet and the mold that grows is worse than the dirt.

As far as I can tell the con response is that since the official state policy of torture and unlawful indefinite detention led to outrage creating more terrorists.....so best to hide the truth because....it might create more terrorists?

"One of the detainees...was later diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an anal fissure, and symptomatic rectal prolapse."

This means they yanked his asshole inside out, for those of you not up to date on your medical whitewashing.

Rec

Amendment VIII of Bill of Rights....

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

jeez

only way allowed when our military (our govs 'hired contractors) have a naked man stuffed in a box for a couple weeks.

Comments are my own.

O

needs to jump out without warning...much more shocking and effective as an outrage generator. Of course, that's only my take.

Torture is offensive and shocking.

Obama Reverses Pledge to Release Photos of Detainee Abuse

A month after making public once-classified Justice Department memos detailing the Bush administration's coercive methods of interrogation, President Obama yesterday chose secrecy over disclosure, saying he will seek to block the court-ordered release of photographs depicting the abuse of detainees held by U.S. authorities abroad.

Obama agreed less than three weeks ago not to oppose the photos' release, but he changed his mind after viewing some of the images and hearing warnings from his generals in Iraq and in Afghanistan that such a move would endanger U.S. troops deployed there.

"The publication of these photos would not add any additional benefit to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals," Obama said yesterday. "In fact, the most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to further inflame anti-American opinion and to put our troops in danger."

Civil liberties and human rights advocates said the reversal would serve to maintain the Bush administration's legacy of secrecy. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Obama's shift was "deeply disappointing."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051301751.html

Rumsfelds outrage was people were running around with cameras.

Someone probably thought they were being "cute" by giving it another name, but they weren't concerned one bit about hydrating anyone. It's absolutely disgusting.

this news of our Inquisition techniques. Done in the name of all americans, whether 9/11 victims or not. I think the killing of a 100-thousand innocents in Iraq and lord knows how many in "the graveyard of empires" more than evened the score needed by the american public and it's leaders for 'retribution'. I could be wrong though. Maybe more is still needed. Oh wait, the slaughter is still going on with our proxies pulling the triggers and pushing the buttons.......it ain't over yet... .

to get them out of that hell hole.

So what is the bigger crime? The countless gross criminal acts of torture ... or the deliberate denial of bring swift and certain justice for them? Every American needs to take a shower tonight to get all this national slime of shame off themselves . . .

Obama's not ignoring it. He argued for releasing it over strong Rethug opposition.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/12/09/obama-bush-senate-torture-report-dick-cheney/20129507/

Supporters of two very different presidents — Barack Obama and George W. Bush — are bracing for battle over Tuesday's Senate report on what Obama backers call "torture" and what Bush backers call "enhanced interrogation techniques."

While Obama and aides support release of the report as a way to prevent future abuses, some former Bush administration officials call it partisan second-guessing of CIA techniques that proved necessary during the war on terrorism.

"What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it," former vice president Dick Cheney told The New York Times. "I think that's all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program."

Current administration officials said Obama supports release of the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

SNIP

for 6&1/2 years now he has obstructed justice in regards to the bushco's torture program.....the aclu has no power to prosecute but their call for issuing pardons is morally reprehensible

have def missed something. Not unusual for me unfortunately.

That is something a President can do.

talking about the last few years. Thanks for reminding me. Feliz Navidad!

enough with trying to soften the release

Compassionate conservatives, God in the mix Christians.

So that means bushcheney co are proud rapists. No wonder the rape meme is being so heavily promoted.

n/t

There isn't enough paint in the universe to pretty up the horrors those people were subjected to. The people that carried out those orders are likely also messed up for the rest of their lives, too.

It's just a shameful stain on our nation.

The hearts of those who underwent torture, and those that followed the orders to torture are forever decimated and lost their humanity.

I kid.

sarcasm thingy here

I'm so far past disgusted about this whole thing that I can scarcely contemplate it.

If our fine nation discovered that American POWs were being treated this way, we would already have bombed the country flat and demanded that every member of the government be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

K and R

Rec for your thread.

is a dream for gunz.

I'll bet he was strongly pro-life.

of prisoners who were fasting/refusing to eat? is this also how they were being fed?

if our own country will not hold bush and cheney criminally responsible, will the u.n.?

for its inconvenient truth.

F--ked up!!!

And if inserting a tube into the rectum was all it consisted of I'd agree that it was merely rape. Everything that transpires after the tube insertion is a fuck of a lot worse. Nobody is so dumb that they don't know the basics of the digestive system and that no one can be "fed" rectally. Everyone also knows what happens when a substance is administered through the rectum and that the purpose when medically necessary is to evacuate the bowel. Clearly, this wasn't done for any medical purpose, and no one should have any illusions that what, how much and how this was administered was anything in the same universe as a medically necessary enema.

Calling it merely rape ignores everything that occurs after the tube is inserted which is by FAR a million times worse.

It's not just a war crime, it's a heinous evil medieval torture that the mere thought of should make anyone cringe in utter disgust and horror.

a case where a man was subjected to a violently forced rectal examination when he went into the ER to get some stitches in his forehead. I got raked over the coals for posting my opinion that this represented an instance of rape and sodomy.

But yes, I absolutely agree that this sort of thing represents a form of rape/sexual assault.