This Saturday could mark the largest anti-police violence protests the United States has seen since Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson this August
Dozens of congressional staffers gathered on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday afternoon in protest over the recent Eric Garnerand Michael Brown grand jury decisions, demanding justice for the black men who died after confrontations with police.
CIA Director John Brennan addressed the damning Senate torture report on Thursday, pushing back against claims that the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) produced no valuable intelligence in the decade-long war on terror.
In a series of tweets this morning, surgeon and author Atul Gawande called out the doctors who helped the CIA torture people.
1/The Senate CIA Torture Report reveals savage, immoral, utterly despicable practices by our govt. http://t.co/qZWUNtJSeU
A Senate report on torture by CIA agents is filled with obscure terms and cryptic phrases that conceal brutal techniques
For the CIA officials involved in torture, one thing was clear from the very beginning: The only way they would be forgiven for what they did was if they could show it had saved lives.
It was the heart of their rationale. It was vital to public acceptance. It was how they would avoid prosecution.
A US Senate committee on Tuesday presented a report on the interrogation tactics of the CIA that reveals how the intelligence service has tortured presumed terrorists since 9/11. Some commentators express shock and see countries in Europe as the CIA’s accomplices. Others call the outcry hypocritical given that these practices were common knowledge.
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