The Torture Business

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At The Intercept...

In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s landmark report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, civil rights organizations are calling for those responsible to face immediate legal accountability.

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The report provides proof that detainees were tortured while in U.S. custody, Dixon argued. “These revelations trigger mandatory obligations on the part of the United States to prosecute those who both implemented and designed this torture program at the highest levels,” he said.

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In your dreams.

Also noted were the details of the torture of Abu Zubaydah, one of the first CIA detainees subjected to the enhanced interrogation program. As described in the report, Zubaydah was subjected to repeated waterboarding, physical violence, and extended confinement in a “coffin-size box.” After enduring 17 straight days of torture, he was described as being “completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth.”

Zubaydah’s torture reduced him to a state of total submissiveness.

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Reprieve is calling for bringing the architects of the terror program to justice, stating that despite the release of this report, “those responsible for signing off on [abuse] are still being feted on book tours and talk shows. We are still a long way from acknowledging the horrors of the CIA’s torture program, and achieving real accountability.”

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Lawyers at the Center for Constitution Rights are dubious, however, about the prospects of the Obama Administration pursuing criminal charges against those responsible for torture, calling instead on international courts to take steps to ensure accountability. “[I]f the [U.S.] government continues to refuse to hold them accountable, they must be pursued internationally under the principles of universal jurisdiction,” the group said in a statement.

A verbal chastisement is likely. Will that do?

Also, the Washington Post has a graphic list of then CIA Director Michael Hayden's serial lies regarding the torture program, as revealed by the torture report.  

Finally, from Yahoo News Service...