Reply #41: The truth has been out there for some time: TORTURE

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This was all discussed in a February 2005 article in the New Yorker about "rendering" prisoners. I wrote about this last night, downstream post #20, but that post has been ignored.

OUTSOURCING TORTURE by Jane Mayer.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6

"Cloonan’s F.B.I. colleagues advised Libi of his rights and took turns with C.I.A. agents in questioning him. After a few days, F.B.I. officials felt that they were developing a good rapport with him. The C.I.A. agents, however, felt that he was lying to them, and needed tougher interrogation."

"To Cloonan’s dismay, the C.I.A. reportedly rendered Libi to Egypt."

"Last summer, Newsweek reported that Libi, who was eventually transferred from Egypt to Guantánamo Bay, was the source of the incendiary charge cited by Powell, and that he had recanted."


It's all out there already. And the tie-in to the quality of information you get through torture is too obvious to bear repeating.

But I will repeat it anyway.

It seems torture-induced lies may have played a huge role in enabling this disgusting regime to destroy the state and people of Iraq, and bring our own country to the brink of ruin.

Wat