What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report

Protesters confront John Yoo, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as he makes his way to a classroom. About 75 demonstrators called for the university to fire Yoo, a former Bush administration attorney, who wrote legal memos used to support harsh interrogation techniques that critics say constituted torture. | AP/Noah Berger

Glenn Greenwald, Salon | Full Story | The release today of the 2004 CIA’s Inspector General Report (.pdf) underscores how unjust it would be to prosecute only low-level interrogators rather than the high-level officials who implemented the torture regime.

Before saying anything about the implications of this Report, I want to post some excerpts of what CIA interrogators did. Every American should be forced to read and learn this in order to know what was done in their names. >>

Published 09.08.24 00:00:00 -0500 GMT | Posted by Andrew Garib on 09.08.26 | |

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