Is the Central Intelligence Agency finally out of the torture business?
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President Obama chose a nearly dead moment in the news cycle--the Wednesday before Thanksgiving--to sign into law the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA included a provision authored by Senator McCain and Senator Feinstein that makes permanent the Executive ban on CIA torture!
The Obama Administration, which recently gave public praise to the jaw-dropping placement of Saudi Arabia on the United Nations Human Rights Committee, chose not to make a big public fuss about this legislation--which requires the CIA to allow Red Cross visits to prisoners held by CIA officers.
Perhaps the CIA's good friends--the beheading-happy, women-oppressing, petroleum-pumping Saudis--will be happy to take over torture interrogation duties in the "war on terror"?
Too bad neither CIA torture nor NSA spying has actually done anything to end the bloodshed.
President Obama chose a nearly dead moment in the news cycle--the Wednesday before Thanksgiving--to sign into law the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA included a provision authored by Senator McCain and Senator Feinstein that makes permanent the Executive ban on CIA torture!
The Obama Administration, which recently gave public praise to the jaw-dropping placement of Saudi Arabia on the United Nations Human Rights Committee, chose not to make a big public fuss about this legislation--which requires the CIA to allow Red Cross visits to prisoners held by CIA officers.
Perhaps the CIA's good friends--the beheading-happy, women-oppressing, petroleum-pumping Saudis--will be happy to take over torture interrogation duties in the "war on terror"?
Too bad neither CIA torture nor NSA spying has actually done anything to end the bloodshed.
posted by washingtonwaterwoman | 2:13 PM
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