TORTURE 101

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Torture 101
Celerino “Cele” Castillo III,  May 18, 2004

Editor's Note: As the Abu Ghraib scandal widens, the Bush administration is sticking to its mantra, “This is not America.” But this essay sent to us by veteran deep cover operative Celerino “Cele” Castillo III offers a stark reminder of this country’s true legacy of the use of torture. Castillo knows what he’s talking about. A 20-year veteran of state and federal law enforcement, Castillo spent twelve years in the Drug Enforcement Administration, working undercover in Central and South America during the 1980s. While in El Salvador, he found himself smack in the middle of another Bush’s illegal war. He discovered that drug sales authorized by the CIA were being used to fund the brutal and corrupt Nicaraguan Contra army. He also found out firsthand that the use of torture is not limited to the world's so-called "evildoers." He sent us these thoughts on Abu Ghraib, the Nick Berg killing and the connections between the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror":

“We’re going to ask you some questions. If you give an answer we like, we’ll let you smoke. If we don’t like the answer, we’ll burn you. The anticipation was worse than the burns.” - A CIA agent and his goon squad torturing an American nun Diana Ortiz, by burning her 75 times with a cigarette.

Photos of humiliated, helpless Iraqi prisoners flood the nation’s front pages, computer screens and high-definition televisions. Here we are once again, caught in the act of what is known as “what we do best”. It is no longer the image of Saddam’s statue tipping over – it’s an American female warrior with an Iraqi prisoner on a leash. Forget about winning the hearts and minds of not only the Iraqi people but also the entire world.

The CIA got the “green light” to implement torture, authorized by a set of secret rules for the interrogation of high-level Al Qaeda prisoners. These secret rules were endorsed by the Justice Department after they had been adopted by the Bush administration after the Sept. 11 attacks. These tortures were the results of several murders committed by the CIA.

There is no doubt, in my mind, that the CIA was involved in the murder of Nick Berg, the American who was executed in Iraq. There is a history of how the CIA has a way of staging murders of Americans, so that the enemy takes a fall from it. My opinion is that the CIA found that Nick was getting too close to some Iraqis, which made him an automatic target of the CIA. According to his family, he had been detained by American intelligence and later disappeared.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc4492.html

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1. alternate media is getting it, where is the mainstream?

see this thread for some damning background

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1624099

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2. It's the American PEOPLE who need to 'get it'...

...but that's not going to happen as long as the 'state-controlled' media continues to help in the coverup.

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3. Could it be..

...that the CIA and other intelligence agencies have worked outside the 'rule of law' and that our representatives are afraid of them? Afraid to bring them to justice knowing that they too might suffer an 'accident'?

- This is NOT what America was supposed to be. This is not what we were promised.