[Peace-discuss] Obama the drone murderer is also a torturer

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/america-committing-brutal-acts-torture-right-now?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

...Obama did not ban torture in 2009, and has not rescinded it now. He instead rehabilitated torture with a carefully crafted Executive Order that has received little scrutiny. He demanded, for instance, that interrogation techniques be made to fit the US Army Field Manual, which complies with the Geneva Convention and has prohibited torture since 1956.

But in 2006, revisions were made to the Army Field Manual, in particular through ‘Appendix M’, which contained interrogation techniques that went far beyond the original Geneva-inspired restrictions of the original version of the manual. This includes 19 methods of interrogation and the practice of extraordinary rendition 

...a new UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) review of the manual shows that a wide-range of torture techniques continue to be deployed by the US government, including isolation, sensory deprivation, stress positions, chemically-induced psychosis, adjustments of environmental and dietary rules, among others.

...the revelations contained in the Senate report are a mere fraction of the totality of torture techniques deployed by the CIA and other agencies [NOTABLY JSOC]...
On Jan. 22, 2009, retired Admiral Dennis Blair, then Obama’s director of national intelligence, told the Senate intelligence committee that the Army Field Manual would be amended to allow new forms of harsh interrogation, but that these changes would remain classified...



Add this week support for 'our Himmler,' Brennan & weakening of Dodd-Frank for Wall Street.

--CGE


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