The Hollywood Liberal

When the Bush torture policy in Guantanamo was getting lots of negative press, and making us look no better then Russia under Stalin. Cheney and Rummy and the boys came up with a new plan. “Lets just kidnap the bad guys and ship them off to some foreign country, without telling anyone, not even his family. Then we can torture the F**k out of him to our hearts content.”
This secret program could have gone on for years without anyone knowing about it, except members of the CIA, who are not known as being coddler’s were so embarrassed by what Bush was doing that they blew the whistle on the whole thing, and it was finally reported by the Washington Post, throwing the whole thing open for public scrutiny. Of course the Bush administration likes to keep lots of things secret because once the people find out, they show their outrage of the evil. You know it’s bad when the CIA won’t even let you get away with it.

CIA dissenters helped expose renditions, says inquiry chief

Guardian UK
Excerpt

“Many leading figures in the CIA did not accept these methods at all,” Dick Marty (of the council of Europe) told a committee meeting yesterday. He said senior agency officials had agreed to help his investigation in return for anonymity. “People in the CIA felt these things were not consonant with the sort of intelligence work they normally do,” he said.
In his report late last month, Mr Marty presented evidence of a secret programme to transfer terror suspects to a network of detention centres where they could be interrogated without the protection of US or international law. Some of these prisons were on European soil, specifically in Poland and Romania, and were used from 2002 to 2005.

The rendition programme was exposed by the Washington Post in November 2005. The US president, George Bush, confirmed last year that the CIA had conducted such clandestine transfers of detainees, who were interrogated using what he described as “alternative procedures”.

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