CIA Torturers Running Scared - By Ray McGovern

CIA Torturers Running Scared

By Ray McGovern
September 19, 2009

In what should be seen as a bizarre twist, seven CIA directors — including three who are themselves implicated in planning and conducting torture and assassination — have asked the President to call off Holder.

Please, tell me how could the whole thing be more transparent?

Now, out in the public domain is all the evidence needed to show that war crimes were committed — “authorized” as legal by Justice Department Mafia-type lawyers recruited for that express purpose — but war crimes nonetheless.

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Quite a group, this Gang of Seven.

Their letter also is condescending toward President Obama: “As President you have the authority to make decisions restricting substantive interrogation… But the administration must be mindful that public disclosure about past intelligence operations can only help al-Qaeda elude US intelligence and plan future operations.”

The seven then proceed to repeat the canard alleging that such collection “have saved lives and helped protect America from further attacks.”

It reads as though Dick Cheney did their first draft. Actually, that would not be all that surprising, given his record of doing quite a lot of CIA’s drafting for eight long years.

Hold firm Holder.

more:
http://consortiumnews.com/2009/091909a.html

It isn't the easy path, but it IS the right thing to do. Laws were broken, people took short cuts and tortured in our names - there must be accountability.

I understand there was an attempt on JFK to be accomplished in Chicago. Same style: parade, patsy, three shooters.

Whistleblower ended up spending years in jail, and is still trying to get people to listen to his revelation.

actual hands on torturing. Damn them.

What a daunting task he faces though-- there are so many war criminals after the Bush Cheeneey Reign.

and: How many people joined the resistance of the occupation because of torture?

it is not his decision to make and that AG Holder is the man in charge of the Justice Department.