US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites

[Bragi]

The April 9, 2009, issue of The New York Review offers first view of American torture inside secret
prisons. The United States tortured prisoners, according to a secret report on “The Black Sites” by the
International Committee of the Red Cross , excerpted in great detail in the new issue of The New
York Review of Books. The report, whose findings are made public here for the first time, details in
specific and explicit terms the various methods and “enhanced techniques” the CIA used to interrogate
prisoners in a secret “global internment system” set up at the direction of President George W. Bush less than a week after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The report is summarized and analyzed in a lengthy and definitive article, “US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites,” by Mark Danner, a longtime
contributor to The New York Review and author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror.
--------------------------------------

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22530
-----------------------------

Whether what is depicted in these "published for the first time" testimonies constitutes evidence of war crimes isn't even a hard question. This is torture, and torture is a war crime.

Will nothing be done in the U.S. to bring these criminals to justice? Is America going to leave it to other nations to indict, arrest and try the Bush war criminals? if so, it will be done, and it will be seen as a great tragedy by the world that the U.S. could not hold its own leaders accountable for war crimes.