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The torture of reading the Washington PostAnne Applebaum of the Washington Post has a column bemoaning a report that purports to show we tortured detainees or had it done at our behest. While the stories told are painful, we have no way of knowing their accuracy and even if taken at face value they may not even constitute torture. Sooner or later, we will also have to hold accountable the American leaders who ordered American citizens to torture prisoners who were captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere, in violation both of our Constitution and of international conventions we ratified long ago. I say "American leaders" quite deliberately: Before any investigation has taken place, it is pointless to name names and needlessly politicize what should in principle be a neutral legal process.
That crimes were committed is no longer in doubt. Really now, no doubt? Perhaps the slightest inkling of an innocent until proven guilty? no? We just need to fill in the blanks and start frog-marching these American leaders off to jail. I wonder if she has a list of names? Clinton? Clinton? I kinda doubt that's who she has in mind, but don't forget for a second that he definitely led off the current round of the rendition express. But first let's look at this incontrovertible proof of criminal torture Ms. Applebaum cites. Mark Danner, writing in the New York Review of Books, has just published excerpts from a previously confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the interrogation methods used by the CIA in its "black site" prisons. OK let me get this one, a writer for a book review publishes excerpts from a supposed to be confidential report by a non-governmental agency and this erases all doubt that a criminal conspiracy existed. More likely it proves that a criminal-like conspiracy to expose secrets of the US government exists among the media. But obviously this un-impeachable article in the NY Review of Books about a Red Cross report that is excerpted, previously-confidential and based on sources whose testimony cannot be doubted gets it's "facts" from..... The Red Cross report, based on interviews its officials conducted in 2006, mentions only 14 detainees. So this whole indictment of America is based on the How 'bout if for a minute we examine the stories told by these innocent goat-herders and horticulturists. Yet the horror of the CIA interrogation tactics in these places lies not in their scale but in the doggedness with which they defied American and international law. "Waterboarding" is one of the more benign methods on a list of "alternative" interrogation methods that included many hours of forced standing, nudity, beating and kicking, confinement in a box, sleep deprivation, and exposure to cold.
Detainees spoke of being "strapped to a bed, in a very white room," With black curtains near the station, well now they are just regurgitating Cream lyrics. of being smashed "repeatedly against the hard walls of the room,"
of being forced to listen to unbearably loud music and deprived of solid food.
Describing these techniques, Red Cross officials deliberately use the word "torture," with all of its legal and moral connotations.
These techniques, horrific in and of themselves, did deep political damage.
As I have written before, and as Danner concurs, there is still no evidence that information obtained through torture was of any special value: People under extreme physical stress will say anything to make the pain stop.
The confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and one of the 14 "special" detainees -- were widely ignored two years ago precisely because many people assumed, rightly, that these confessions were obtained using torture.
What we need now, therefore, is not an endless, politicized circus of a congressional investigation into every aspect of George W. Bush's White House
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