Report Indicates CIA "Tortured" prisoners
The International Red Cross released a report today indicating that the CIA allowed practices that amounted to "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of al queda prisoners.
The secret report strongly implies that the United States violated international law prohibiting torture and mistreatment of prisoners. ICRC officials were granted exclusive access to "high-value" detainees in Guantanamo Bay. The prisoners gave detailed accounts of their "torture" which included sleep deprivation and being held naked while listening to constant music.
The CIA did not comment, but an official familiar with the report noted that the claims were not witnessed by Red Cross officials and were "unsubstantiated." The claims came from terrorist, themselves.
The news article this comes from did not mention that no US prisoners were beheaded or permanently maimed while in US custody, as would happen had they been in the "custody" of our enemies in the war on terror. Nor was their any mention of the fact that the US allows the ICRC access to our prisons and prisoners to investigate abuses, while many other nations do not.
I, for one, applaud the CIA and the previous administration for using whatever means necessary to keep us safe. I doubt the current administration will be as successful in the war on terror, since they are allowing political considerations to hamper their ability to deal appropriately with terrorist groups and terrorist nations.
Instead, the current administration wants to sit down for tea with those who want to kill us.
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