[GPSCC-chat] Why We Can't Have Torture Accountability

[Brian Good]

An NBC News analysis says that "more than a quarter of all footnotes in the 
9/11 
Commission Report refer to controversial interrogation techniques," says Juan 
Gonzalez of Democracy Now. 

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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/7/the_9_11_commission_torture_how


Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights, offered this opinion:

"Here you have a report that’s supposed to tell us what actually happened
 in its 
key chapters on the planning of 9/11, what actually happened 
when the people 
came into the country, and you look at those footnotes, 
and they’re based on 
torture. What it has to tell you is to be very, 
very skeptical about a number of 
the conclusions in that report. You 
just can’t rely on evidence of torture. We all 
know that."

Michael Windrem, the NBC news author of the analysis said:

"At least four of them said indeed that they had provided information 
only as a 
result of being tortured. And they used the word “torture.” 
They did not use 
“enhanced interrogation techniques.” They said 
“torture.” And two of them, as I 
recall, said that they recanted what 
they had said during those interrogations, 
because it was not the truth.
 And Abu Zubaydah, in particular, went into detail 
as to what he had 
said under torture and what he was now recanting."

So there you have it.  An investigation into Bush-era torture can not happen,
because it will destroy the 9/11 Commission Report.  






  		 	   		  

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