The CIA tortured! That's
new? No... but the debate over how much we get to know about it is big
news.
People working to expose the truth on the torture
camps -- including Guantanamo, Bagram, but some still secret "black sites" --
have been demanding for years that the Senate Intelligence Committee's report of
their investigation be made public. On Wednesday the still-classified content
of the report was making headlines, with MSNBC saying "CIA Lied About Torture to Justify Using It":
A Senate intelligence committee investigation found
that the Central Intelligence Agency employed brutal interrogation methods that
turned out to be largely useless and then lied about their effectiveness, according to The Washington
Post.
The most crucial part of this story is still
unfolding. More infighting over the potential that revelations could lead
to more investigation -- which could, if we mount the requisite demand
for it -- mean prosecution for those at the top of the torture regime. It would
take a huge political fight, but it's the one we need to expose the utter
illegitimacy of what the U.S. did -- and is still doing.
Is anyone at the top who was responsible for torture going to be
investigated, charged, prosecuted or imprisoned? There is disagreement at
some levels of the government over this -- but it's going to take a much louder
outcry from people to bust this huge web of lies open. It's time, and it
matters.
Thanks to the National Religious Campaign Against Torture for staying
on this, and getting religious leaders to demand the report's release to the
public.
RIP Casey Sheehan 5/27/79 – 04/04/04 &
Thank YOU Cindy Sheehan
Tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of the death of Casey Sheehan in Sadr
City, Iraq Casey was a mechanic, forced to pick up a gun and pushed into battle,
his life, wasted by a regime bent on spreading empire. It was Cindy Sheehan who
unmasked the Bush Regime, asking, at Camp Casey outside Bush's ranch, "what
noble cause" her son died for.
Cindy and her family will be together
marking this anniversary. You can send her a message which we will forward as a group
commemoration.
We continue to appreciate Cindy's actions in
2005, especially, which re-ignited the anti-war movement and touched millions of
people who knew the war was wrong.
American University students
walk out on 'war criminal' Cheney
 CHEERS
for the students at American University in DC who protested Dick Cheney — and
forced him to deny being a war criminal.
“More than two dozen American University students
staged a walk-out protest during an address by former vice president Dick Cheney
at the Washington, DC school on Thursday.
“Some of the students called
Cheney a ‘war criminal’ as they left the speech, which was hosted by The Kennedy
Political Union, MSNBC reports. Cheney denied the ‘war criminal’ charge, saying
that ‘the accusations are not true,’ according to The Eagle, American
University's student newspaper. ‘Some people called it torture, it wasn't
torture,’ Cheney told American University student television station ATV,
referring to the so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ approved for use
against terrorism suspects by the highest-ranking Bush administration
officials.
“While insisting that the interrupted drowning technique known
as waterboarding isn't torture, in 2011 Cheney acknowledged that it would be
unacceptable for Iranian interrogators to waterboard an American citizen. Still,
Cheney was unapologetic following the American University protest. ‘If I would
have to do it all over again, I would,’ Cheney insisted during the ATV
interview. ‘The results speak for themselves.’”
Continue reading and watch the video at warcriminalswatch.org.
April 5, 2010: Collateral Murder hit the internet, immediately
concentrating the debate over whether the U.S. military's actions of killing
civilians, and laughing about it are legit.
Collateral Murder is the military's own video of 12 Iraqis being shot and
killed from a US helicopter circling above. No one has been charged in
connection with these killings. However, (former) Pfc. Chelsea Manningm
then known as Bradley Manning, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after leaking
this video to Wikileaks. World Can't Wait is distributing copies of this
harrowing video so that many more people in the US see what is being done in
their names. Watch online.
Due to the overwhelming
response to our offer to provide copies at no charge, supplies have been
exhausted. We will gladly send copies at the cost of production & postage
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TONIGHT World Can't Wait Conversation Invite your friends to the Facebook
Event.
10 pm EST - 7 pm
PST
We'll be joined by Ross Caputi of the Justice for Fallujah
Project. Watch his film,
Fear Not the Path of
Truth... This documentary
follows Ross Caputi, veteran of the 2nd siege of Fallujah, as he investigates
the atrocities that he participated in and the legacy of US foreign policy in
Fallujah, Iraq.
 World
Can't Wait Needs YOU to Sustain Its Mission
Thank you to everyone stepping forward to keep
this movement going! 6 more sustainers are needed to meet basic operating
expenses by April 18, 2014.
One of our most generous sustainers just sent
a semi-annual donation, and submitted a "matching" request to his employer. A
song writer musician supporter of World Can't Wait just paid a year's sustainer
by check. You can pay by check, or securely online...and it can be tax
deductible.
Thanks to everyone who attended last night's event
Drones & Dirty Wars: Prelude to Spring Days of Action 2014. You can watch the webcast now.
kNOwdrones.org is the place to find all the events for
the next two months, and an excellent weekly bulletin on the Spring Days. Also see
Granny Peace Brigade. Thanks to Cat Watters for
photos, and SlowMotionSolo for live-streaming; The Justice in Action Committee
of Community Church, and Resistance Cinema.
And especially to the speakers, Carl Dix, Maria
LaHood, and Madiha Tahir. 
Madiha, Carl & Maria. Photo: Cat Watters
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