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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0WASHINGTON A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture and that the nations highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.
The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody. The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, is to be released on Tuesday morning.
Debate over the coercive interrogation methods used by the administration of President George W. Bush has often broken down on largely partisan lines. The Constitution Projects task force on detainee treatment, led by two former members of Congress with experience in the executive branch a Republican, Asa Hutchinson, and a Democrat, James R. Jones seeks to produce a stronger national consensus on the torture question.
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Mr. Hutchinson, who served in the Bush administration as chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration and under secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said he took convincing on the torture issue. But after the panels nearly two years of research, he said he had no doubts about what the United States did.
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U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes (Original Post)
deminks
Apr 2013
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blkmusclmachine
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choie
(4,102 posts)2. It is very unfortunate (and maybe calculated?)
that the Times chose today to publish this article -- with the events in Boston as headlines, nobody is going to pay attention to it...