- Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd: No, Joe, Don't Roll out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on December 22, 2020, 9:10 am
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21 December 2020 (quote) It was painful enough to live through the U.S invasion of Iraq that caused untold devastation and human misery for no justifiable reason. Now we are again reminded of the grim Bush legacy with President-elect Biden's nomination of Avril Haines for Director of National Intelligence. Haines, who has an inside-the-beltway reputation for being nice and soft spoken, was a little too nice to CIA agents who hacked the computers of Senate Intelligence Committee investigators looking into the CIA use of torture-waterboarding, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, rectal feeding, whippings, sexual humiliation-at prisons in Guantanamo and Afghanistan during the Bush War on Terror. As Deputy Director of the CIA in the Obama administration, Haines chose not to discipline those CIA hackers who violated the separation of powers, crossing the boundary line and beaching the firewall between the executive and legislative branches. To add insult to injury, Haines led the team that redacted an exhaustive 5-year, 6,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture until it was reduced to a censored, 500-page summary smeared with black ink to cover up the screaming horrors and shield those responsible. That's why torture survivors and their advocates have just released a damning Open Letter urging Senators to vote NO on Haines when her nomination lands in their laps in mid-January or February after the cyber pomp and circumstance of a virtual Presidential inauguration. The letter, signed by several decade-long detainee/survivors of torture at Guantanamo, also objects to the possible nomination of Mike Morell, a CIA analyst under Bush, for CIA Director. (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/no-joe-dont-roll-out-the-red-carpet-for-torture-enablers/ |
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