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deminks

(11,006 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:21 AM Dec 2014

Tony Blair condemns torture in wake of CIA report

The Poodle Barks (through a spokesperson)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11294571/Tony-Blair-condemns-torture-in-wake-of-CIA-report.html


Tony Blair has made his first public condemnation of torture since the publication of a US Senate committee report on the CIA, as the former prime minister continued to face calls to reveal what he knew about Britain's role.


A spokesman for Mr Blair's office said the ex-premier believed torture of suspects in the war on terror was not only "totally unacceptable" but "counter-productive".


It came as a chorus of senior Labour figures said Mr Blair, along with Jack Straw and David Miliband, should appear before the parliamentary committee examining whether Britain was complicit in the brutal US interrogation programme.


A spokesman for Mr Blair's office said: "For the avoidance of doubt, Tony Blair has always been opposed to the use of torture, has always said so publicly and privately, has never condoned its use and - as is shown by internal government documentation already made public - thinks it is totally unacceptable.


"He believes the fight against radical Islamism is a fight about values, and acting contrary to those values - as in the use of torture - is therefore not just wrong but counter-productive."

(end snip)

Be interesting to see if they really make him or Straw testify.

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Tony Blair condemns torture in wake of CIA report (Original Post) deminks Dec 2014 OP
Snort Solly Mack Dec 2014 #1
stupid git. pansypoo53219 Dec 2014 #2
Testify, motherfucker! Iggo Dec 2014 #3
Couldn't believe how fast he condemned torture after the report came out. Octafish Dec 2014 #4
So we now at last hear the thin and tinny "arf" of the Chimperor's lapdog. hifiguy Dec 2014 #5

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. Couldn't believe how fast he condemned torture after the report came out.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:08 PM
Dec 2014

Blair hasn't moved that fast since the passing of Dr. David Kelly.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. So we now at last hear the thin and tinny "arf" of the Chimperor's lapdog.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:12 PM
Dec 2014

Disappear, Blair. Just walk into the Thames and sink to the bottom.

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