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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:20 AM Dec 2014

Memo to the CIA: You guys are monsters, period

“We agree with Conclusion 10 in full. It underpins the most important lesson that we have drawn from the study: CIA needs to develop the structure, expertise, and methodologies required to more objectively and systematically evaluate the effectiveness of our covert actions.”


Those lines from a just-disclosed Central Intelligence Agency memo of 2013, written in response to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s 6,000-page study of the CIA’s detention-and-interrogation program are, despite everything, among the most chilling to emerge this week.

To get the effect of reading the CIA response to the torture report, after reading the report itself, you have to imagine those words coming from actual monsters. Picture it as if you just opened a closet door in your home and found a revolting collection of grimy monsters – surrounded by stacks of paperwork and their own gag-inducing filth.

These are not charming Muppet-like monsters, no. Go to your most horrible, indeed murderous, monsters. Imagine you’ve just seen the monsters bite the heads off chickens – they bit slowly, twisted, on the necks. It was hard not to think they took visceral pleasure in this. Visceral because the monsters didn’t eat the chickens. No one benefited from the monsters’ considerable, laborious efforts at causing unfathomable (to those who’ve never been tortured) pain.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/columnists/memo-to-the-cia-you-guys-are-monsters-period/article22064523/
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Memo to the CIA: You guys are monsters, period (Original Post) bemildred Dec 2014 OP
Mallick: The torture twins behind the U.S. CIA report bemildred Dec 2014 #1
The CIA paid tens of millions to 2 perverts fasttense Dec 2014 #2
Thanks for these links as horrific as they are....and don't miss this from the Intercept... KoKo Dec 2014 #3
K&R Solly Mack Dec 2014 #4

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
1. Mallick: The torture twins behind the U.S. CIA report
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:21 AM
Dec 2014

The censored summary of the U.S. Senate report on American torture released this week is a visceral document, despite efforts by Republicans to present what it describes as a distant dry bloodless thing about which there are “no easy answers.” CIA director John Brennan used management speak when he asked, post-report, that his audience “put aside this debate and move forward to focus on issues that are more relevant to our current national security challenge.”

He sounds like a CEO caught padding his expense reports, but the fact is, the U.S. is now the country most associated with “rectal feeding” and torturing prisoners to the point where they moved obediently to the waterboarding table after hearing two finger snaps. Pavlov’s dogs weren’t as well-trained. You say “CIA,” I say “Hieronymus Bosch,” who was notorious for anal stabbing. That was in the 15th century, so the CIA went retro out of purest revenge.

The U.S. torture of at least 39 prisoners from 2002 to 2007 was emblematic of the worst strands in American life: militarism, racism, anti-intellectualism and, given the now-famous sodomy, hyper-masculinity.

Some of it was outsourced to two freelancers, Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, military retirees who spoke no foreign languages and knew nothing of Middle Eastern history, attended cheeseball colleges and called themselves “Dr.,” two insecure men looking to monetize zilch. In the report they are given the pseudonyms “Grayson Swigert” and “Hammond Dunbar.” Either this is an in-joke or computer-generated.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/12/12/mallick_the_torture_twins_behind_the_us_cia_report.html

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
2. The CIA paid tens of millions to 2 perverts
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 09:14 AM
Dec 2014

For bad porn and serial sex offender techniques. It shows just how stupid Americans can be, especially RepubliCON americans.

Reminds me of that stupid name the Koch brothers gave their RepubliCON group against medical care. You know: Tea Baggers

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
3. Thanks for these links as horrific as they are....and don't miss this from the Intercept...
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:09 AM
Dec 2014

One of the "Salt Pit's" Torturers Rewards...

THE CHARMED LIFE OF A CIA TORTURER

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025962596

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