De VS pasten deze middeleeuwse martelmethode van de katholieke inquisitie al toe in de negentiende eeuw toen het imperium de Filippijnen met veel geweld en doden veroverde. En ook in Vietnam werd deze methode toegepast en nu weer in Irak en Guantanamo Bay. Alles natuurlijk in het kader van het verspreiden van de verworvenheden van de westerse beschaving.
Rice Channels Nixon: Since the President Authorized Torture, That Makes It Legal
Posted by Ali Frick, Think Progress at 8:25 AM on April 30, 2009.
Watch Rice attempt to hide her central role in approving torture.
Recently, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with some students at Stanford University, where she is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. When a student asked whether Rice had authorized torture, she refused to take responsibility, saying only that she "conveyed the authorization of the administration." She added that, "by definition," once the president authorized "enhanced interrogations," they were automatically legal:
Q: Is waterboarding torture?
RICE: The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture. So that's -- And by the way, I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency, that they had policy authorization, subject to the Justice Department's clearance. That's what I did.
Q: Okay. Is waterboarding torture in your opinion?
RICE: I just said, the United States was told, we were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture. And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.
The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur, who obtained the video, said Rice "
absolutely pulls a Nixon
" in her answer.
Rice is attempting to hide her central role in approving torture, as the Senate Armed Services Committee report released last week highlighted. She gave verbal authorization to then-director of the CIA George Tenet to waterboard Abu Zubaydah in July 2002 -- one month before the Office of Legal Counsel gave the legal justification for such torture.
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