UAE "torture" scandal and cover-up sparks outrage in the U.S.

[cornermouse]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

...Indeed. What kind of primitive, brutal country knows for years that its own powerful government officials participated in torture and then fails even to investigate what happened, let alone impose meaningful accountability on the torturers? The international community simply cannot tolerate acquiescence to that sort of evil. Note that the UAE apparently compensated the victims of the prince's torture, whereas the U.S. blocked -- and continues to try to block -- its own torture victims from even having a day in court.

Had Issa -- who ordered these torture sessions recorded -- only looked to the U.S. for civilized and moral leadership on such matters, he almost certainly could have avoided this trouble:

U.S. Says C.I.A. Destroyed 92 Tapes of Interrogations

The government on Monday revealed for the first time the extent of the destruction of videotapes in 2005 by the Central Intelligence Agency, saying that agency officers destroyed 92 videotapes documenting the harsh interrogations of two Qaeda suspects in C.I.A. detention. . . .

It had been previously known that officials of the agency had destroyed hundreds of hours of videotaped interrogations, but the documents filed Monday reveal the number of tapes. . . . The destroyed videotapes are thought to have depicted some of the harshest interrogation techniques used by the C.I.A..."

[ejpoeta]

1. there's the rub. you can't be 'outraged' at another country doing

the same thing your country is doing. period. end of discussion.

[LooseWilly]

2. But Truman had his fingers crossed when he signed.

And that's the real issue. Other signatories to the Geneva Conventions, the UN, etc... who may have failed to cross their fingers when they signed! It's outrageous !!

[cornermouse]

4. Kind of ruins our credibility

and makes me feel sick just thinking about the dfact that we did it. The cover-up compounds the sick feeling.

[cali]

3. what outrage? It was barely a story for a day?