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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:27 AM Dec 2014

Polish ex-president admits to secret CIA prison after U.S. torture report released

Source: AP/Reuters

The release of a U.S. senate report on harsh CIA interrogation techniques has elicited condemnation, a call for prosecution – and new revelations from the countries involved in the Americans’ global intelligence-gathering plans.

After denying the fact for years, a former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, acknowledged Wednesday that Poland had let the CIA run a secret prison on its territory but insisted that Polish officials did not authorize the harsh treatment or torture of its inmates.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/world-reacts-to-us-torture-report/article22020356/

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Polish ex-president admits to secret CIA prison after U.S. torture report released (Original Post) bemildred Dec 2014 OP

Justification duhneece Dec 2014 #1

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Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:49 AM

Dec 2014

An MSNBC talking head was explaining that the report was one-sided and didn't include what was going on in our nation, what was going on around the interrogators....

sounded like those justifying the actions of the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials. I can't hear any justification without hearing those...and I know 'those who invoke Nazis, have lost,' but how can we not?

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