“Torture is against our laws and our values. And, given our mission, CIA could have no interest in a process destined to produce bad intelligence.”
He said US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shared his “deep regret” about the mistaken assurances.
He said he was “very sorry” to have to say that previous denials made in “good faith” were now having to be corrected.
Just fuck off. Continual lying is continual disrespect and I’m sick of it. It’s sad we still live in such a way that the truth of our history (in terms of widely accepted public consensus) will not be known until all the key players are beyond sanction and by then the false version of events often remains in place from force of habit. Life in the simulacrum is fucking killing me!
21 February, 2008 at 11:23 pm
In a somewhat related note:
Bolivia to Stop Sending Troops to School of Americas
Meanwhile, the Bolivian government has announced it will no longer send troops to the former U.S. Army School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. Bolivian President Evo Morales said the decision was made because of the school’s historical ties to oppressive military regimes in Latin America. Bolivia has now officially become the fifth country after Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela to announce a withdrawal from the Fort Benning institution, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Cooperation.
Here is the link:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/21/headlines
21 February, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Coincidentally I’ve juts clicked play on today’s episode, good news. Also it’s quite funny AFRICOM is not welcome as Bush tours around saying they are not interested in bases there…or oil.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,536789,00.html
22 February, 2008 at 8:41 am
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