Report shows torture program used to extract false confessions to propagandize Americans to war
to sell to the American people the continuation of the corporate/MIC agenda of perpetual war for profit.
Please don't miss, please kick and rec. this important post by KoKo:
Is the Media Focusing on the Wrong Senate Torture Report?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025959095
This is the depth of corruption to which our corporate-purchased government has sunk. A deliberate policy of breaking bones, raping, and sodomizing, to extract false confessions to propagandize its own citizens.
An executive order banning "some" "enhanced interrogation techniques"...while continuing renditions with ZERO real accountability...and actively protecting the architects and perpetrators and attempting to conceal the evidence from Americans
doen't even remotely resemble actually ending torture.
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..from @emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler)
The Debate about Torture We’re Not Having: Exploitation
Published December 8, 2014
As the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on torture (released over 5 years ago, in far less redacted form than tomorrow’s summary will be) makes clear, the Bush regime embraced torture not for “intelligence” but for “exploitation.” In December 2001, when DOD first started searching for what would become torture, it was explicitly looking for “exploitation.”
As Administration lawyers began to reconsider U.S. adherence to the Geneva Conventions, the DoD Office of the General Counsel also began seeking information on detention and interrogation. In December 2001, the DoD General Counsel’s office contacted the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for information about detainee “exploitation.
And as a footnote explaining that reference makes clear, “interrogation is only one part of the exploitation process.”
Some other things exploitation is used for — indeed the very things the torture we reverse-engineered for our own torture program was used for — are to help recruit double agents and to produce propaganda.
And we have every reason to believe those were among the things all incarnations of our torture were used for. We tortured in Abu Ghraib because we had no sources in the Iraqi resistance and for some reason we believed sexually humiliating men would shame them into turning narcs for the US.
read more: https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/12/08/the-debate-about-torture-were-not-having-exploitation/
related:
Some torture facts.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/12/08/some-torture-facts/
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