Secular Café: 'Indisputable’ Proof Of Use Of Torture Under Bush, Report Finds

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'Indisputable' Proof Of Use Of Torture Under Bush, Report Finds Apr 23rd 2013, 19:07 http://www.care2.com/causes/indisput...ort-finds.html Apparently a non-partisan report. And from Amnesty International: ""In the years since 9/11, the U.S. government has repeatedly violated both international and domestic prohibitions on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in the name of fighting terrorism." Quote: "In the years since 9/11, the U.S. government has repeatedly violated both international and domestic prohibitions on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in the name of fighting terrorism." This statement from Amnesty International is one that many of us have known to be true for a long time, but the government under George W. Bush flatly denied it over and over again. U.S. Engaged In Torture: Bush Administration Responsible Now a nonpartisan review of the U.S. government's anti-terrorism response after the attacks of September 11, 2001, has found "indisputable" proof that the U.S. engaged in torture and that the George W. Bush administration bore responsibility. The report, which runs to 577 pages, is the product of a two-year study conducted by a task force of 11 experts from a broad range of perspectives and professions. The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment surveyed the ways in which prisoners were held and interrogated at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and at secret CIA "black prisons." It covers the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, but focuses most sharply on the Bush era. According to the report, brutality has happened before, "but there 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 advisors on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody." Once the Bush administration had given the go-ahead for "enhanced interrogation techniques, U.S. forces, in many instances, used interrogation techniques on detainees that constitute torture. American personnel conducted an even larger number of interrogations that involved 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' treatment." There you have it: the Bush administration knowingly endorsed the use of torture. More at the link as usual.

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