Protecting the Public from the (redacted executive summary) Torture Report
 

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Maybe the agency names in this cartoon are labeled wrong?

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Great cartoon -- do you have the original link to it? I went to thismodernworld.com just now and didn't see it on the main page.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;390318]Great cartoon -- do you have the original link to it? I went to thismodernworld.com just now and didn't see it on the main page.[/QUOTE]

I got it from DKos-
[url]http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/15/1351734/-Cartoon-Tortured-logic[/url]

[QUOTE=kladner;390323]I got it from DKos-
[url]http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/15/1351734/-Cartoon-Tortured-logic[/url][/QUOTE]

Thanks - don't normally find myself at DK - the phrase "deluge of Obotic groupthink" comes to mind - but wanted to forward this to a few folks.

[url=www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/guantanamo-diary-a-classified-handwritten-manuscript]Guantánamo Diary: How a classified, handwritten manuscript became an extraordinary book[/url] | The Guardian

[i]More than six years after Mohamedou Ould Slahi finished writing, his editor finally got his hands on the text. This is the story of the battle for publication[/i]

[url]http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/01/22/4496708_sen-burr-is-wrong-to-recall-cia.html?rh=1[/url]

[url]http://www.ncstoptorturenow.org/[/url]

[url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/26/police-black-site-chicago-washington-politicians-human-rights]Chicago PD Running "Black Site"[/url]

Some commentary I've seen about this mistakenly concludes - by analogy with militarized policing overall - that this is a case of domestic law [strike]infringement[/strike] enforcement imitating our beloved military, but [url=http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/links-22515.html#comment-2410063]this is apparently backwards in this case[/url].

Of course, with 'Mericans having been thoroughly propagandized about such "regrettable but necessary" official crimes by pop-TV shows like [i]24[/i] and Dick Wolf's [i]Chicago PD[/i] (in which a multi-episode installment depicted use of just such a warehouse "off-books enhanced interrogation" facility), this story will not generate anywhere near the public outrage it deserves.

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html]FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades[/url] | WaPo
[quote]The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions.[/quote]
I sense difficulties with the 'rogue employee tactic' of the standard official-coverup-playbook here.

[QUOTE]Poland is paying a quarter of a million dollars to two terror suspects tortured by the CIA in a secret facility in this country – prompting outrage among many here who feel they are being punished for American wrongdoing.
Europe’s top human rights court imposed the penalty against Poland, setting a Saturday deadline.


It irks many in Poland that their country is facing legal repercussions for the secret rendition and detention programme which the CIA operated under then-President George W Bush in several countries across the world after the 9/11 attacks.


So far no US officials have been held accountable, but the European court of human rights has shown that it does not want to let European powers that helped the programme off the hook. The court also ordered Macedonia in 2012 to pay €60,000 ($68,000/£43,000) to a Lebanese-German man who was seized in Macedonia on erroneous suspicion of terrorist ties and subjected to abuse by the CIA.[/QUOTE]
Press article: [URL]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/poland-pays-250000-alleged-victims-cia-rendition-torture[/URL]

The government of South Africa has ignored a direct order from the high court in South Africa itself, allowing Omar al-Bashir to avoid trial for genocide.
[URL]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/16/omar-al-bashir-escape-south-africa-african-union[/URL]