Dicked Around

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
The disclosure about Mr. Cheney’s role in the unidentified C.I.A. program comes a day after an inspector general’s report underscored the central role of the former vice president’s office in restricting to a small circle of officials knowledge of the National Security Agency’s program of eavesdropping without warrants, a degree of secrecy that the report concluded hurt the effectiveness of the counterterrorism surveillance effort.
New York Times report HERE

John McCain is Still Alive!

Noting that the media spotlight has been shining on his 'big mistake', John McCain has resurfaced.
Not to be out done, he's taken the same tact as his presidential campaign running mate has...e.g. finger pointing and bottom feeding by calling on CIA director Leon Panetta to retract his statements about Dick Cheney wherein Panetta apparently remarked that the former VP "almost wishes" for another terror attack on U.S. soil simply to prove his point that President Barack Obama is pursuing a dangerous national security agenda.
more HERE

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Obama in Violation of International Law?

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak has accused US President Barack Obama of violating international law for not bringing CIA torture agents to court.
BBC report HERE

Related:
Obama torture policies slammed by critics on both sides

Torture & Truth

Disturbing secret memos released this week detail the sadistic interrogation methods the Bush administration authorized the CIA to use on detainees. These memos provide shocking confirmation of high-level involvement in the Bush torture program.
It's appalling to see how far our nation strayed from our commitment to human rights.
Apparently, members of the Bush Administration who directed and authorized all this torture seem to have willed themselves into believing they were doing the righteous and just thing. Maybe they chanted affirmations after reading The Secret.
more HERE and HERE

Former Bush administration officials are criticizing the Obama administration for releasing top-secret ‘torture memos.’ ...of course they are.
more HERE
Read the memos HERE

Related:
The Evil That John Yoo Wrought

Dick Cheney Confesses to War Crime

Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he was directly involved in approving severe interrogation methods used by the CIA.
Yoo hoo! International War Crimes Tribunal?
more HERE and HERE

Redacted CIA Document on Torture

On the ACLU's blog, they have a PDF of a CIA redacted document about the use of torture. The page is entirely blacked out except for the phrase, "These enhanced techniques include:" and then farther down the page, "waterboard".