Why Torture in Iraq is Covered Up

Alleged War Criminals Jay Bybee & John Yoo

 

Human Rights Watch Reports That US Government Tortured Children — Paul Craig Roberts

 

Brazil Documentary

 

Senate Battling Propaganda?

 

The measure, which defines the entertainment industry broadly, follows a series of reportspublished by VICE News over the past year detailing the agency’s role in the production of 22 entertainment-related projects between 2006 and 2011. They included major motion pictures like Zero Dark Thirty and Argo; reality television series such as Top Chef; the cable drama series, Covert Affairs;and books including The Devil’s Light by Richard North Patterson.

 

A Senate committee wants to crack down on spy agencies’ cozy relationship with Hollywood

 

US CIA Psychologists Are War Criminals

 

CIA psychologists admit creating post-9/11 ‘torture’ practice for $81mn

Both James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen admitted“in part” that they produced a document for the CIA called “Recognizing and Developing Countermeasures to Al-Qaeda Resistance to Interrogation Techniques: A Resistance Training Perspective.”

 

 

Abu Zubaydah was mentioned. Read the background on Zubaydah and what actually happened.

 

US Death Squads in Iraq: James Steele

 

Documentary:

James Steele: America’s mystery man in Iraq – video

 

A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James Coffman, worked with Steele and reported directly to General David Petraeus, who had been sent into Iraq to organise the Iraqi security services

CIA Destroyed Senate Torture Report

The CIA’s Inspector General’s office has now engaged in “conspiracy to torture,” a felony war crime. They have deleted the torture investigation report while shielding torturers from prosecution.

Torture Report Disappearance

This is nothing short of fascism. An unaccountable torture state gives its finger to the idea of senate oversight, justice, the basic enforcement of the law, and accountability.

 

Trump’s Fascism: Torturer

 

Trump recently said he does not care if torture doesn’t work, because ‘they deserve it anyway’

‘I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding’

 

Torture is a felony. Punishable by 20 years imprisonment and the death penalty if your victim dies.