Ron Paul: Shut Down the CIA!
by ron paul : http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arch...-down-the-cia/
Remember back in April, 2007, when then-CIA director George Tenet appeared on 60 Minutes, angrily telling the program host, “we don’t torture people”? … We knew then it was not true because we had already seen the photos of Iraqis tortured at Abu Ghraib prison four years earlier. Still the US administration denied that torture was torture, preferring to call it “enhanced interrogation” … Of course, we later found out that the CIA had not only lied about the torture of large numbers of people after 9/11, but it had vastly exaggerated any valuable information that came from such practices.
However secret rendition of prisoners to other places was ongoing. The US not only tortured people in its own custody … the European Court of Human Rights found that the US government transferred individuals to secret detention centers … where they were tortured away from public scrutiny. …
The Obama administration refuses to admit that such facilities existed and instead claims that any such “enhanced interrogation” programs were shut down by 2009. … we should be wary of government promises. After all, they promised us all along that they were not using torture, and we might have never known had photographs and other information not been leaked …
The president [Obama] has openly justified killing American citizens without charge or trial and he has done so on at least three occasions. There is not much of a gap between torture and extrajudicial murder when it comes to human rights abuses. …
The CIA was already caught tapping into the computers of Senate investigators ..
Far from keeping us safer, CIA covert actions across the globe have led to destruction of countries and societies and unprecedented resentment toward the United States. For our own safety, end the CIA!
RP Podcast End the CIA: http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/podca...ul-end-the-cia
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