By Eric Margolis
"Nations that use torture disgrace themselves. Armed forces and police that torture inevitably become brutalized and corrupted. `Limited’ use of torture quickly becomes generalized. `Information’ obtained by torture is mostly unreliable.
I learned these truths over fifty years covering dirty `pacification’ wars, from Algeria to Indochina, Central and South America, southern Africa, the Mideast, Afghanistan, and Kashmir in which torture was commonly used.....
President Obama actually told CIA personnel that he does not want to prosecute the torturers because they were only following proper legal advice and orders. So did Nazi officials who killed millions.
Nazi lawyers legally dismembered Germany’s Weimar democracy and imposed Nazi dictatorship in only two months after the `terrorist attack’ on the Reichstag in Feb. 1933. Imposition of Hitler’s dictatorship followed proper legal channels......"
"Nations that use torture disgrace themselves. Armed forces and police that torture inevitably become brutalized and corrupted. `Limited’ use of torture quickly becomes generalized. `Information’ obtained by torture is mostly unreliable.
I learned these truths over fifty years covering dirty `pacification’ wars, from Algeria to Indochina, Central and South America, southern Africa, the Mideast, Afghanistan, and Kashmir in which torture was commonly used.....
President Obama actually told CIA personnel that he does not want to prosecute the torturers because they were only following proper legal advice and orders. So did Nazi officials who killed millions.
Nazi lawyers legally dismembered Germany’s Weimar democracy and imposed Nazi dictatorship in only two months after the `terrorist attack’ on the Reichstag in Feb. 1933. Imposition of Hitler’s dictatorship followed proper legal channels......"
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