Prisoners are seen at Camp Cropper, a U.S. detention centre near Baghdad airport April 21, 2009. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ CONFLICT SOCIETY)Military Helped With CIA Interrogation Tactics -- L.A. Times
Military helped with CIA interrogation tactics, report says. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said top civilians in the Bush administration allowed a military training program to be used to mistreat detainees. A senator says the report 'connects the dots' to show how techniques familiar to military experts found their way into controversial memos by the Justice Department.
Reporting from Washington -- A U.S. military agency that trains troops to resist and survive torture offered crucial help in developing harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA, according to a Senate report to be released today.
The military expertise also was used by the Justice Department to develop controversial legal justifications for abusive interrogation methods, the report by the Senate Armed Services Committee said.
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Update: Report links CIA to military harsh interrogations -- Yahoo News/AP
My Comment: On the one hand President Obama talks about moving forward .... but on the other hand he goes back. Sigh ....when old news is being recycled as news you know that there is an agenda being played.
So what is that agenda?
The groundwork is now being prepared to attack the weakest link in the war against terror .... the prosecution of the attorneys and legal experts who laid the legal foundation for these operations. The consequences from this will be profound and long lasting .... no right thinking lawyer or legal expert is going to touch counter terrorism or counter insurgency affairs with a ten foot pole .... and if he or she does .... they will just play it safe, thereby neutering and making impotent any effective strategy to obtain information from captured terrorists or combatants.
We are in a time of war battling against a very deadly enemy. And while President Obama is reluctant to release the memos that Vice President Cheney has requested should now be declassified in order to show the danger that we are in .... we (the public) are now stuck in only getting the message from the Government and Justice Department .... and any alternative point of view on this important issue be damned.