tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post1843019256668211198..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Abolish the CIAKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-61276511599212411312014-12-12T00:08:35.258-05:002014-12-12T00:08:35.258-05:00The Rank, Reeking Horror of Torturing Some Folks h...The Rank, Reeking Horror of Torturing Some Folks http://shar.es/134sUX via @sharethis<br /><br /><br />from W.R. Pitt editor of TruthoutPearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-74700997266428705282014-12-11T18:32:26.334-05:002014-12-11T18:32:26.334-05:00If the Toronto Star cuts you off from this excelle...If the Toronto Star cuts you off from this excellent column try putting the title on a Google search. They are even worse than the nytimes in not allowing anyone who doesn't have a subscription from accessing their articles. Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-11194159934927334312014-12-11T18:27:44.361-05:002014-12-11T18:27:44.361-05:00The Canada Connection
Canada must own up to i...The Canada Connection<br /><br /><br /> Canada must own up to its complicity in torture: Siddiqui http://on.thestar.com/1vQLUSR via @torontostarPearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-53564686050703897542014-12-11T11:06:25.031-05:002014-12-11T11:06:25.031-05:00I bet some of those prisoners who were tortured an...I bet some of those prisoners who were tortured and rectally raped ended up looking like Nazi Holocaust victims, all gaunt and emaciated.<br /><br />No wonder the CIA deliberately destroyed all those tapes. At least there were lots of photos from Germany. annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-36549981045693453552014-12-11T00:22:39.444-05:002014-12-11T00:22:39.444-05:00“Good intelligence work, Control had always preach...“Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness. The scalp hunters were the exception to his own rule. They weren't gradual, and they weren't gentle, either." - John le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<br /><br />John le Carré, "Fifty Years Later," introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,<br /><br />“The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world were sharing, since it asked the same old question that we are asking ourselves 50 years later: how far can we go in the rightful defence of our western values, without abandoning them along the way? My fictional chief of the British Service—I called him Control—had no doubt of the answer: <br /><br />"'I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?'"<br /><br />“Today, the same man, with better teeth and hair and a much smarter suit, can be heard explaining away the catastrophic illegal war in Iraq, or justifying medieval torture techniques as the preferred means of interrogation in the 21st century, or defending the inalienable right of closet psychopaths to bear semi-automatic weapons, and the use of unmanned drones as a risk-free method of assassinating one's perceived enemies and anybody who has the bad luck to be standing near them. Or, as a loyal servant of his corporation, assuring us that smoking is harmless to the health of the third world, and great banks are there to serve the public."<br /><br />“What have I learned over the last 50 years? Come to think of it, not much. Just that the morals of the secret world are very like our own.”<br /><br />“Such an abject state of affairs was certainly reached by SIS in the high days of Blake and Philby [KGB agents who were buried deep inside the British Secret Intelligence Service after World War II], just as it was inflicted on the CIA by the paranoid influence of (James) Angleton himself, who, in the aftermath of discovering that he had been eating out of the hand of the KGB’s most successful double agent, spent the rest of his life trying to prove that the Agency, like the SIS, was being controlled by Moscow; and that its occasional successes were consequently no more than sweeteners tossed to it by the fiendish manipulators of the KGB. Angleton was wrong, but his effect on the CIA was as disastrous as if he had been right. Both services would have done much less damage to their countries, moral and financial, if they had simply been disbanded.” - John le Carre, introduction to Pocket Books edition of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyDenis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-48478977251324042062014-12-10T13:16:08.145-05:002014-12-10T13:16:08.145-05:00I'm so fed up.
The torture policy has alread...I'm so fed up. <br /><br />The torture policy has already born poisonous fruit - ISIS beheadings. ISIS made that point by clothing their kidnap victims in orange jumpsuits and videotaping their beheadings after tortured them by waterboarding. I'm sure they'll make a point of copying any new techniques they discover. <br /><br />The most sickening part of all this is that nothing will change. Difi says that "As far as I know, to the best of my knowledge" the practice of torture has ended. Sure, now they're no longer practicing - they've perfected their craft. <br /><br />Any 'Constitutional scholar' lawyer President who serially orders the assassination of American citizens without charges or trial based on secret legal doctrine and fights to keep it top secret WILL DO ANYTHING. I'm sure he already has. Does anyone seriously doubt that torture is still going on? Oh sure, maybe it's not the CIA anymore, it's a new alphabet agency or Special Forces hit team trained specially for that. You just need to look at Obama's fake innocent expression as he tells us to look forward and not backwards to know he's lying. He's got fresh blood dripping from his hands. All those secret Executive Orders and secret legal doctrines written by White House legal teams sure come in handy. <br /><br />The underlying problem is that the President and all his henchmen consider 'keeping us safe' to be more important than their oaths to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Securing the Empire and Wall Street investments from the financial quakes that might erupt from a terrorist attack is their focus and is actually why the World Trade Center was targeted. It we were allowed by our media to read or hear the words of OBL or ISIS, we might hear some painfully uncomfortable truths.<br /><br />It's all blowback.annenigmanoreply@blogger.com