Suzanimal
05-18-2015, 08:36 AM
After I blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program in 2007, the fallout for me was brutal. To make a long story short, I served nearly two years in federal prison and then endured a few more months of house arrest.
What happened to the torture program? Nothing.
Following years of waiting for the government to do something, I was heartened when I read in my prison cell — in a four-day-old copy of The New York Times — that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had finally released in December a heavily censored summary of its report on the CIA’s brutal “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
Finally, I thought, Congress will do something about our government’s shameful embrace of torture. It was big news — for two or three days.
I thought there’d be quick action by courageous members of both parties who respect human rights and civil liberties. I thought they’d work together to ensure that our collective name would never again be sullied by torture — that we’d respect our own laws and the international laws and treaties to which we’re signatories.
In retrospect, I was naïve, even after having served in the CIA for nearly 15 years and as a Senate committee staffer for several more.
Despite repeated efforts by the CIA to impede investigations into its conduct, the report confirmed that the program was even worse than most Americans had thought.
...
http://billmoyers.com/2015/05/15/closing-door-torture/
What happened to the torture program? Nothing.
Following years of waiting for the government to do something, I was heartened when I read in my prison cell — in a four-day-old copy of The New York Times — that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had finally released in December a heavily censored summary of its report on the CIA’s brutal “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
Finally, I thought, Congress will do something about our government’s shameful embrace of torture. It was big news — for two or three days.
I thought there’d be quick action by courageous members of both parties who respect human rights and civil liberties. I thought they’d work together to ensure that our collective name would never again be sullied by torture — that we’d respect our own laws and the international laws and treaties to which we’re signatories.
In retrospect, I was naïve, even after having served in the CIA for nearly 15 years and as a Senate committee staffer for several more.
Despite repeated efforts by the CIA to impede investigations into its conduct, the report confirmed that the program was even worse than most Americans had thought.
...
http://billmoyers.com/2015/05/15/closing-door-torture/