One Case before Philip Zelikow interview:
“We’re going to change your brain.” As was said to Binyan Mohamed by his torturers in Guantanamo - (HERE)
Clive Stafford Smith, attorney for Binyam Mohamed, who was tortured in several secret places and in Guantanamo, describes what was done and explains that it was about the manufacture of information, including false confessions and fingering others for prosecution or further torture. In an earlier interview with Binyam Mohamed's attorney, Clive Stafford Smith:
"Binyam explained that, between the savage beatings and the razor cuts to his penis, his torturers “would tell me what to say.” He added that even towards the end of his time in Morocco, they were still “training me what to say,” and one of them told him, “We’re going to change your brain.”
________________________________________________
Philip Zelikow : The Torture Program and the use of torture techniques of the "Nineteen Eighty-Four" novel by George Orwell :
by Zelikow: "By 1949 George Orwell could envision the shrewdly calibrated torments that induced his protagonist in “1984” to love Big Brother. Such methods worked all too well, Orwell feared. The United States experimented in the 1950s and 1960s with novel ways of extracting information. But, until 2002, it never considered the kind of systematic and truly Orwellian C.I.A. program that has now been revealed. " (article HERE)
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
THE MOVIE:
Friday, April 24, 2009
USA - NO MORE RENDITION ....to torture!
The CIA officer who was the architect of the "Rendition Program" (kidnapping of people) under Bill Clinton's government, is now out of the CIA.
As a top ex-CIA officer, this "non ordinary man" is no more in favor of the "Rendition Program" as it has been conducted . And he has new ideas for Bill Clinton's Democrat sucessor:
"At this point, I'd rather kill them when we find them, than take them anywhere"...(at 7:26 min)
Listen to his candid "deference" to assassinations worldwide - NO MORE RENDITION...just to torture !
Fault Lines - Obama's 'War on Terror' - 16 Apr 09 (Program HERE)
As a top ex-CIA officer, this "non ordinary man" is no more in favor of the "Rendition Program" as it has been conducted . And he has new ideas for Bill Clinton's Democrat sucessor:
"At this point, I'd rather kill them when we find them, than take them anywhere"...(at 7:26 min)
Listen to his candid "deference" to assassinations worldwide - NO MORE RENDITION...just to torture !
Fault Lines - Obama's 'War on Terror' - 16 Apr 09 (Program HERE)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
In 2002 FBI was OUT but CSIS was IN , "visiting" IN Guantanamo ! US Senate Report confirms Rumsfeld responsible for Torture PROGRAM
Confirmation that the USA developed a Torture Program is out by now. Recent released memos also confirm that participation in torture goes from the Military to the CIA...
Documents also show that in late 2001 the FBI refused to participate in the "Torture Program" in Guantanamo and documents show that even in 2003 CSIS went to Guantanamo where the Torture Program was in full gear. With so much information coming out in USA and with the knowledge of CSIS' (Canadian Secret Intelligence Services) "visits" to Guantanamo, one would have to think about the meaning of these CSIS' "visits " to a site running a "Torture Program" ....Isn't this complicity in torture? Is there an explanation to CSIS' visits to "Guantanamo" that doesn't make them, to say the least, bystanders to torture? Can this be brushed off as mere "good faith"? How much involvement do Canadian institutions have with the American Torture PROGRAM? Or is this just a "who cares" issue in Canada?
Recent News on THE AMERICAN TORTURE PROGRAM follow:
"Break Them Down, Leave No Marks" - US Senate Report confirms Rumsfeld responsible for Torture PROGRAM
In USA, after the release of the several "secret memos" this week, it became clear that the United States government developed a Torture Program in which the Military, CIA e etc...were participants. The Torture Program used “interrogation plans” to disorient, abuse, dehumanize, and torment individuals over time . All indications are that the program was intended to GET CONFESSIONS - whatever they were...
It was under the "methods" of this "Torture Program" that a Canadian citizen was "prepared' for the visit of Canadian officials in Guantanamo.
(As posted on April 11, 2009 - all documents available on line at The University of California Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas - click HERE)
The "Program" included the Military, the CIA etc...etc...etc...One more point to think about considering the "very close relationship" Canadians proudly have with USA... To understand the extension of the program:
Documents also show that in late 2001 the FBI refused to participate in the "Torture Program" in Guantanamo and documents show that even in 2003 CSIS went to Guantanamo where the Torture Program was in full gear. With so much information coming out in USA and with the knowledge of CSIS' (Canadian Secret Intelligence Services) "visits" to Guantanamo, one would have to think about the meaning of these CSIS' "visits " to a site running a "Torture Program" ....Isn't this complicity in torture? Is there an explanation to CSIS' visits to "Guantanamo" that doesn't make them, to say the least, bystanders to torture? Can this be brushed off as mere "good faith"? How much involvement do Canadian institutions have with the American Torture PROGRAM? Or is this just a "who cares" issue in Canada?
Recent News on THE AMERICAN TORTURE PROGRAM follow:
"Break Them Down, Leave No Marks" - US Senate Report confirms Rumsfeld responsible for Torture PROGRAM
In USA, after the release of the several "secret memos" this week, it became clear that the United States government developed a Torture Program in which the Military, CIA e etc...were participants. The Torture Program used “interrogation plans” to disorient, abuse, dehumanize, and torment individuals over time . All indications are that the program was intended to GET CONFESSIONS - whatever they were...
It was under the "methods" of this "Torture Program" that a Canadian citizen was "prepared' for the visit of Canadian officials in Guantanamo.
(As posted on April 11, 2009 - all documents available on line at The University of California Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas - click HERE)
The "Program" included the Military, the CIA etc...etc...etc...One more point to think about considering the "very close relationship" Canadians proudly have with USA... To understand the extension of the program:
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Philip Zelikow, 9/11 Commission Director speaks out: THE TORTURE PROGRAM, ITS FAILURE AND LEGAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR TORTURE
Philip Zelikow , "9/11 Commission Director", speaks out about the TORTURE PROGRAM:
Zelikow, who had access to the supposed intelligence obtained from the “high-value detainees” through torture even before the recent released memos, has written an article in which he dissects the torture program’s failings.
He goes further:
"But the argument that they gave us vital information, which readers can see deployed in the memos just as they were deployed to reassure an uneasy president, is based on a fallacy."
He also points out that the most important point should not be "waterboarding" but the fact that it was a torture program.
"the program developed “interrogation plans” to disorient, abuse, dehumanize, and torment individuals over time".
Among the torture 'techniques" : "attention grasp", "walling," facial slaps, "facial hold," cramped confinement, sleep deprivation, "wall standing", insects placed in a confinement box, waterboarding, and stress positions.
(more on the USA Senate Armed Services Committee Report released on April 21, 2009 HERE)
Zelikow's article points out the role of lawyers in the Torture Program:
"There is an elementary distinction, too often lost, between the moral (and policy) question -- "What should we do?" -- and the legal question: "What can we do?" We live in a policy world too inclined to turn lawyers into surrogate priests granting a form of absolution. "The lawyers say it's OK." Well, not really. They say it might be legal. They don't know about OK."
Zelikow's article HERE
"The OLC "torture memos": thoughts from a dissenter - By Philip Zelikow - 04/21/2009
The recent released reports and documents also reveal the participation of psychiatrists and psychologist in developing the torture program. More on this at:
"Tortured Logic: How Medical Professionals Rationalized the Bush Administration's Torture Program."
a responce to the release of the Senate Armed Forces Committee report on detainee abuse, by Nataniel Raymond, Director of PHR. (HERE)
Zelikow is currently the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia and was counselor at the Department of State, a deputy to Secretary Rice, from 2005-2007.
Zelikow, who had access to the supposed intelligence obtained from the “high-value detainees” through torture even before the recent released memos, has written an article in which he dissects the torture program’s failings.
He goes further:
"But the argument that they gave us vital information, which readers can see deployed in the memos just as they were deployed to reassure an uneasy president, is based on a fallacy."
He also points out that the most important point should not be "waterboarding" but the fact that it was a torture program.
"the program developed “interrogation plans” to disorient, abuse, dehumanize, and torment individuals over time".
Among the torture 'techniques" : "attention grasp", "walling," facial slaps, "facial hold," cramped confinement, sleep deprivation, "wall standing", insects placed in a confinement box, waterboarding, and stress positions.
(more on the USA Senate Armed Services Committee Report released on April 21, 2009 HERE)
Zelikow's article points out the role of lawyers in the Torture Program:
"There is an elementary distinction, too often lost, between the moral (and policy) question -- "What should we do?" -- and the legal question: "What can we do?" We live in a policy world too inclined to turn lawyers into surrogate priests granting a form of absolution. "The lawyers say it's OK." Well, not really. They say it might be legal. They don't know about OK."
Zelikow's article HERE
"The OLC "torture memos": thoughts from a dissenter - By Philip Zelikow - 04/21/2009
The recent released reports and documents also reveal the participation of psychiatrists and psychologist in developing the torture program. More on this at:
"Tortured Logic: How Medical Professionals Rationalized the Bush Administration's Torture Program."
a responce to the release of the Senate Armed Forces Committee report on detainee abuse, by Nataniel Raymond, Director of PHR. (HERE)
Zelikow is currently the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia and was counselor at the Department of State, a deputy to Secretary Rice, from 2005-2007.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
RCMP : "WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, ME OR YOUR EYES?" - The RCMP's Propaganda Machine - Drafting the Lies and the "key messages to the media"
_________________________________________________________________________________
View CBC - "Insiders Perspective" April 20, 2009 - (HERE)
__________________________________________________________________________________
One has to wonder the price ALL Police Forces , all over the country, have to pay for siding with the RCMP's lies and cover-ups ...
While tons of police officers in other forces are, on a daily basis, working , really working, to bring criminals to Court, the RCMP doesn't need this - it can only roll its propaganda machine and Bingo!, the "Canadian Police Idol" gets the honours!
From complicity in torture, to harassment of Canadians (HERE) , to killing a confused man in front of the public and on and on, it looks like that nothing is bad enough to the RCMP , as long as it can , with impunity, cover it up. This is a Police Force that would make any dictator happy: lies, crimes, cover-ups, no accountability, power, intimidations...Still missing the "death squads" component? maybe...
But soon, for sure, the RCMP will come up with some "sensational news" about some TERRIFIC crime it solved!
Its propaganda machine must be rolling right now, so that Canada and the world, (mainly those who visit Disneyland) , forget or do not believe in their own eyes or in any evidence that contradicts the RCMP.
At the end of the day, this Police Force slogan looks like to be " "Who you gonna believe, ME OR YOUR EYES?"
For our eyes to see and for our ears to listen:
DRAFTING THE LIES - "key messages to the media"
NOT "JUST" TASER BUT A PATTERN OF VIOLENCE - RCMP Pepper Spray BABY ..Is the case just the taser?
AND some of the CASES...only a few...
68 Year Old Stroke Victim Tasered After Double Parking
RCMP using Taser on disabled man - But in this case, the man died some weeks later...in an accident...
THE LAST MINUTES OF Robert Dziekanski - the RCMP caught on video: " "WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, ME OR YOUR EYES?"
Paul Pritchard,the school teacher who shot the video, had to threaten Court Action to get his camera back, after the RCMP saw him shooting what happened and seized his camera.
View CBC - "Insiders Perspective" April 20, 2009 - (HERE)
__________________________________________________________________________________One has to wonder the price ALL Police Forces , all over the country, have to pay for siding with the RCMP's lies and cover-ups ...
While tons of police officers in other forces are, on a daily basis, working , really working, to bring criminals to Court, the RCMP doesn't need this - it can only roll its propaganda machine and Bingo!, the "Canadian Police Idol" gets the honours!
From complicity in torture, to harassment of Canadians (HERE) , to killing a confused man in front of the public and on and on, it looks like that nothing is bad enough to the RCMP , as long as it can , with impunity, cover it up. This is a Police Force that would make any dictator happy: lies, crimes, cover-ups, no accountability, power, intimidations...Still missing the "death squads" component? maybe...
But soon, for sure, the RCMP will come up with some "sensational news" about some TERRIFIC crime it solved!
Its propaganda machine must be rolling right now, so that Canada and the world, (mainly those who visit Disneyland) , forget or do not believe in their own eyes or in any evidence that contradicts the RCMP.
At the end of the day, this Police Force slogan looks like to be " "Who you gonna believe, ME OR YOUR EYES?"
For our eyes to see and for our ears to listen:
DRAFTING THE LIES - "key messages to the media"
NOT "JUST" TASER BUT A PATTERN OF VIOLENCE - RCMP Pepper Spray BABY ..Is the case just the taser?
AND some of the CASES...only a few...
68 Year Old Stroke Victim Tasered After Double Parking
RCMP using Taser on disabled man - But in this case, the man died some weeks later...in an accident...
THE LAST MINUTES OF Robert Dziekanski - the RCMP caught on video: " "WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, ME OR YOUR EYES?"
Paul Pritchard,the school teacher who shot the video, had to threaten Court Action to get his camera back, after the RCMP saw him shooting what happened and seized his camera.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
WATCH the Video: "Fault Lines" - April 16, 2009 - Canadian Torture Cases included
TORTURE and AMERICA'S Wars - CIA torture operatives, officers of a vigilante Nation since segregation, used to torture, kidnappings, secret executions ...?
USA Torture Program - a reminder of the Ku Klux Klan tactics and "techniques"?
(photo by Anthony Karen-
"Aryan Outfitters - Meet the Ku Klux Klan's seamstress of hate couture"
full piece at Mother Jones, March 27, 2008 - HERE
CIA RENDITION , Torture , kidnappings, assassinations...and more - updates and interviews at "Fault Lines" - with Avi Lewis - April 16, 2009 - HERE
Watch the video:
Part I
Part II
Interviews with people on all sides of the so-called "war on terror" - from human rights lawyers to former Bush administration officials; from a former US detainee who was rendered to torture to the CIA analyst who helped author his fate- Michael Scheuer.
Scheuer remarkably has no constraints when he shows the bully/vigilante mentality of American Secret Services:
"I'd rather kill them when we find them, than to take them anywhere!"
by Michael Scheuer - former CIA staffer
Also, an interview with Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state under George Bush, Obama's predecessor, who said he hoped he would have resigned had he known that detainees were being waterboarded.
USA Torture Program - a reminder of the Ku Klux Klan tactics and "techniques"?
(photo by Anthony Karen-
"Aryan Outfitters - Meet the Ku Klux Klan's seamstress of hate couture"
full piece at Mother Jones, March 27, 2008 - HERE
CIA RENDITION , Torture , kidnappings, assassinations...and more - updates and interviews at "Fault Lines" - with Avi Lewis - April 16, 2009 - HERE
Watch the video:
Part I
Part II
Interviews with people on all sides of the so-called "war on terror" - from human rights lawyers to former Bush administration officials; from a former US detainee who was rendered to torture to the CIA analyst who helped author his fate- Michael Scheuer.
Scheuer remarkably has no constraints when he shows the bully/vigilante mentality of American Secret Services:
"I'd rather kill them when we find them, than to take them anywhere!"
by Michael Scheuer - former CIA staffer
Also, an interview with Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state under George Bush, Obama's predecessor, who said he hoped he would have resigned had he known that detainees were being waterboarded.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The Bush Six to Be Indicted - Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, David Addington, Jay Bybee, William J. Haynes II and Douglas J. Feith
Harpers Magazine - April 14, 2009 (HERE)
Spanish prosecutors decide to seek indictments against Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, David Addington, Jay Bybee, William J. Haynes II and Douglas J. Feith on charges that they conspired to introduce a regime of torture that resulted in the torture of five Spaniards held at Gitmo.
The Bush Six labored at length to create a legal black hole in which they could implement their policies safe from the scrutiny of American courts and the American media. Perhaps they achieved much of their objective, but the law of unintended consequences has kicked in. If U.S. courts and prosecutors will not address the matter because of a lack of jurisdiction, foreign courts appear only too happy to step in.
READ THE DETAILS HERE.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)