Intelligence Vets Back Torture Probe (9-28-09 Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity/VIPS)

[bobthedrummer]

An open letter to President Obama
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/092809a.html

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R

—Tenet was the chief enabler of torture. He also oversaw widespread kidnapping (“extraordinary rendition”), which in some cases led to torture.

—Our sources tell us that Tenet knew about the overstepping of the guidelines approved by the lawyers and that he knew the people doing it. Rather than restrain them, he pushed them still harder, in an attempt to please his masters.

We strongly believe that investigations of possible wrongdoing cannot, in all fairness, be limited to the proverbial “bad apples at the bottom of the barrel.” Rather, in our view, such investigations must be allowed to go wherever the evidence leads.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/092809a.html

[bobthedrummer]

2. "It's Not Just About Waterboarding" by Lt. Col. Barry Wingard (9-29-09 Truthout)

http://www.truthout.org//092909B?n