Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n
It’s confirmed — the Bush administration approved and conducted torture to extract information from prisoners during the “War on Terror.” The methods violated international and American law, and were widely considered illegal by everyone except the administration and it\u0432\u0402\u2122s legal advisory. This week, by his own volition (i.e., not forced to by a court), President Obama released memos from 2005 detailing the intimate justifications for torture between high ranking legal professionals and administration officials.<\/p>\n
According to these people, the United States is able to hold other countries to standards that it does not have to follow\u0432\u0402\u00a6<\/p>\n
Steve Bergstein is Planet Waves’ civil rights columnist. In two parts, he spells out how torture demeans us, undermines the integrity of the rule of law and where we’re to go from here. He writes:<\/p>\n
One of the highest ranking government lawyers, Steven Bradbury, who ran the prestigious Office of Legal Counsel (which advises the president on legal issues) baldly stated that “we recognize that as a matter of diplomacy, the United States may for various reasons in various circumstances call another nation to account for practices that may in some respects resemble conduct in which the United States might in some circumstances engage, covertly or otherwise. Diplomatic relations with regard to foreign countries are not reliable evidence of United States executive practices and may be of only limited relevance here.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Check out this column at Psychsound<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Cam Hassard
\nAssistant Editor<\/em>
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