Report: Post-9/11 Torture “Indisputable” and “Unprecedented”

[Coyotl]

Report: Post-9/11 Torture “Indisputable” and “Unprecedented”
http://billmoyers.com/2013/04/17/report-post-911-torture-%E2%80%9Cindisputable%E2%80%9D-and-unprecedented%E2%80%9D/
April 17, 2013 by John Light

A new report from an independent task force finds that the Bush administration committed torture. The decision to do so, made by top officials and the president himself, was unprecedented. “[T]here is no evidence there had ever before been the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after Sept. 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,” writes the U.S. Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment.

The task force, an eleven-person team led by former Congressman Asa Hutchinson, a Republican and an undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush administration, and former Democratic Congressman James R. Jones, sought to piece together “an accurate and authoritative account of how the United States treated people its forces held in custody as the nation mobilized to deal with a global terrorist theat.” The New York Times called the report “the most ambitious independent attempt to date to assess the detention and interrogation programs.”

In the years since 2001, journalists, lawyers and activists have been unable to get the Central Intelligence Agency, Justice Department and Bush administration to state unequivocally that the interrogation tactics used on detainees constituted torture. The Obama administration chose not to commission an official study of interrogation and detention tactics, saying it was unproductive to “look backwards.” But it is “indisputable,” the report’s authors conclude, that torture occurred at Guantánamo, the C.I.A.’s so-called black sites and other war-zone detention centers.

One of the most fascinating chapters of the task force’s report is .....

[G_j]

1. Statutes of Limitations Are Expiring on Some Bush Crimes

http://www.thenation.com/article/173435/statutes-limitations-are-expiring-some-bush-crimes#

[Coyotl]

2. American statutes maybe

murder has none, and other nations have different laws that apply to Bush's treatment of their citizens and actions overseas.

[G_j]

3. This report should be headline news of course

but regardless of that, there are clear crimes that should be prosecuted. The evidence is there.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Sorry, but nobody gives a rats ass

because hardly anyone noticed, because this report's release was buried
in the nooz coverage of Boston bombing, Texas fertilizer explosion, et. al.

Hardly a mention anywhere. Now it's old news, and besides, Obama wants
us to be "moving forward", not fretting about such trivia as torture or shredding
the constitution and international law.

<-- Please note

[whathehell]

5. I think many do care, especially progressives and civil liberties advocates

but as I'm sure you've noticed, the country seems to be experiencing a major crisis a day, lately.

Other than that, yes, I certainly think Obama was wrong to take prosecution off the table.

It's not only wrong, but it influenced others to "forget" it.

[Skittles]

6. yup

our president said we had to "move forward" - they were not even INTERESTED in the facts

[G_j]

7. k