Trail of Torture Tapes

[nhboy]

"You don't have to be a law student to know that in 2005, when the CIA destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes of "coercive interrogations" in its secret prisons—including waterboarding and other tortures—the obliteration of hard evidence was criminal obstruction of justice.

We had thought photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were obscene (and they did prove to be valuable recruiting tools for Al Qaeda and its affiliates), but we can only imagine the effect on world opinion that the filmed waterboarding of a terrified prisoner by his CIA interrogators would have."

village voice > news > Nat Hentoff: Following the Trail of the Torture Tapes by Nat Hentoff

 

[ImnoMensa]

Personally I have no poblem with the waterboarding if it saves American lives,but whatever idiot allowed them to be taped inthe first place isn playing with a full deck.

 

[Chainsaw Slayer]

exactly I can't believe somone would be dumb enough to tape themself tourchuring someone.

 

[This_person]

It's almost as if they knew it wasn't considered torture!

 

[Ken King]

Isn't this all moot after the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 where Congress determined that unlawful enemy combatants may not invoke the Geneva Conventions as a source of rights?

 

[ImnoMensa]

HMMMMM , I wonder how many Democrat members of Congress you could get to admit they passed that.

 

[Ken King]

HMMMMM , I wonder how many Democrat members of Congress you could get to admit they passed that.

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