Reuters: U.S. used waterboarding but no more: ex-spy chief
The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's most explicit confirmation of the technique's use.Yes, but why would anyone attach value to any remarks coming from this administration. A statement like this is made to lay down some sort of ameliorating quality that will ease the general population's understanding and negative sense of Bush and all that Bush has done. Its not going to work. The credibility gap is profound and wide, and the truth got dumped years ago.
Bush has regularly insisted that the United States does not torture but has declined to discuss what interrogation techniques are used. The CIA declined comment on Negroponte's remarks.
Waterboarding is torture. The people responsible for directing its usage are war criminals.
Regarding Negroponte:
Mr. Negroponte has served as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985
At the time Mr. Negroponte was in Honduras, Honduras was a military dictatorship. Kidnapping, rape, torture and executions of dissidents was rampant. The military top and middle ranks were U.S-trained at the School of the Americas (SOA), the Harvard version of the CIA, based in Fort Benning, Georgia. According to Human Rights Watch, graduates of the SOA are responsible for the worst human rights abuses and torture of dissidents in Latin America.
Reliable evidence from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Honduras alleged that Negroponte oversaw the expansion of U.S training camp and military base on Honduran territory, where US-trained Contras terrorists, and where the military secretly detained, tortured and executed Honduran suspected dissidents. Source
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Amb. Negroponte ( Black Pt.) is our very own death head commander and SS Grupen Fuhrer. Wherever this ghoul ends up the death squads are never far behind. Which is scary because guess where he's been assigned too lately? HERE!
I was wondering about the timing of this announcement coinciding with the state of the union. The effort is being made to present Bush as softer and gentler. The MSM is simply retelling the story, as usual without any context or background.
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