White House Denies Torture Assertion
On October 4th, the Bush administration officially recognized that the Justice Department issued a secret legal opinion in early 2005 allowing exact interrogation techniques to be used on CIA terrorism suspects, but denied that the tactics violated earlier government decrees against torture. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel thinks that some of the specific torture allowed was painful physical and psychological tactics, including head slapping, simulated drowning, and cold temperatures, for terrorism suspects in the custody of the CIA. Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman, said that the legal opinion of interrogation techniques did not conflict with administration promises not to torture suspects. President Bush and his aides routinely denounce torture and deny that it was been practiced. A CIA spokesman, Paul Gimigliano said that the agency “has been implemented carefully and lawfully” regarding its interrogation program.
On January 27, 1997, a declassified CIA training manual that detailed torture methods used against suspected subversives in Central America during the 1980s. This document disproves the claims that the CIA did not teach any methods of torture. After the Freedom of Information Act, the “Human Resources Exploitation Training Manual – 1983” was released. Also, the CIA declassified a training manual around the time of Vietnam called “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation – July 1963.” This manual also taught how to torture and intelligence sources believe to have been what the 1983 manual was based on. Some torture methods that were taught in the 1983 manual were stripping suspects naked and keeping them blindfolded, and interrogation rooms should be windowless, dark, and soundproof, with no toilet.
On January 27, 1997, a declassified CIA training manual that detailed torture methods used against suspected subversives in Central America during the 1980s. This document disproves the claims that the CIA did not teach any methods of torture. After the Freedom of Information Act, the “Human Resources Exploitation Training Manual – 1983” was released. Also, the CIA declassified a training manual around the time of Vietnam called “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation – July 1963.” This manual also taught how to torture and intelligence sources believe to have been what the 1983 manual was based on. Some torture methods that were taught in the 1983 manual were stripping suspects naked and keeping them blindfolded, and interrogation rooms should be windowless, dark, and soundproof, with no toilet.
posted by Sarah C. | 9:45 PM
1 Comments:
I understand that the United States has rules that mandate how the military must treat P.O.W.s. But honestly, do you think that these terrorist that kidnap our military men and women are treating them fairly. They are torturing our men and women in ways that are unspeakable and sometimes unthinkable. Why must we follow certain rules, while these terrorists only know how to break the rules? Is it because we are the United States and must treat everyone fairly even though they do not do the same to us? Torture is way of extracting potentially helpful information in protecting the United States. I feel as if the United States must do anything to protect its citizens.
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