Wednesday, March 11, 2015

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Chelsea Manning's new Guardian Op-Ed
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Chelsea Manning's new Guardian op-ed:
prosecute CIA torturers

On Monday, March 9th, Chelsea Manning's latest opinion article, "The CIA's torturers and the leaders who approved their actions must face the law," was published by The Guardian.
Torture as a method of intelligence collection is not only, "ineffective and counterproductive," explains Chelsea but, "the techniques outlined in the Senate torture report were far outside the boundaries of what is acceptable for the US intelligence community. Their supposed effectiveness is irrelevant to the fact that torture is wrong.
It is important to hold the officers, supervisors and, to a lesser extent, the politicians involved in creating and executing these programs, accountable."
Chelsea Manning, Guardian OpEd
March 9, 2015

Successful intelligence gathering through interrogation and other forms of human interaction by conventional means can be – and more often than not are – very successful. But, even though interrogation by less conventional methods might get glorified in popular culture – torture and the mistreatment of detainees in the custody of intelligence personnel is, was and shall continue to be unethical and morally wrong. Under US law, torture and mistreatment of detainees is also very illegal.
Even the most junior level intelligence officials know that this is, and has been, the case for decades.
...It is important to hold the officers, supervisors and, to a lesser extent, the politicians involved in creating and executing these programs, accountable. To let their horrific actions go unanswered would send an awful message to the world...

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