“CIA prevented prisoner deaths to prolong torture”
Published: 28 October, 2009, 12:57
Edited: 18 January, 2010, 04:39
TAGS: Crime, Interview, RT Exclusive, Human rights, Law, USA
The CIA took measures to make sure their tortured prisoners did not die – in order to continue further torturing, according to human rights lawyer John Sifton.
President Obama has cut a swathe through the Bush-era National Security Program, forcing the CIA to close its secret overseas prisons and banning harsh interrogation methods.
RT spoke to Human Rights lawyer John Sifton about the kind of abuses which took place.
“In the military there were a large number of deaths with the CIA,” he said.
“It engaged in horrendous abuses, they appear to have taken precautions to prevent people from dying. This might sound humane, but in fact it’s sickening, as they were torturing them at the same time trying to maintain their health so that they could continue.”
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Count Cash said it right. The USA is corrupt to the core and it wants total spectrum dominance. This frightening Orwellian state also has it's hands on such a frightening military and especially nuclear arsenal that no one in the world should feel safe from that mad torture state. Fortunately for humanity it is failing rapidly.
The US became a farm for harvesting manufactured "humans" - those who have been purposely bio-engineered as the "criminally insane" to do the bidding of the owners who run the corporate "American" operation. Like the organ harvesting and then the sex trading - women, children, you name it and the sickest of humans have taken control of exchanging "money" in forms of 21st Century style "flesh trading" ... .... and the CIA, NATO, Mossad, et al., etc., are just earning profits for their shareholders and we know how complicated a global reality this is. Who runs the torturers and more intelligent a question is, who funds and trains the TRANSNATIONALS? Are the transnationals a collective of shareholders? Can the primary owner/s be tracked and traced? What about holding the actual responsible, responsible - in other words since the smartest do already know. Which conglomerate of transnationals have committed the highest crime/s against all humanity by and through using the human brain as though a killing robot ... .... ? Time for a real change, and full transparency can begin it now as Goethe would agree.
Obama must be living in a dream world if he thinks that by telling the CIA to shut their torture houses down they will listen to him. He is just a patsy in this chess game of politics between the real rulers and the rest of the world. The USA will fall, he will get the blame, and the CIA agents will disappear to Central America where they already have their nests covertly protected.