Rendition Week: A Question for Condi
Posted December 9th, 2005 by quarsan
Condi managed to bamboozle the EU Ministers with her statement that:
US interrogators are banned from using torture at home and abroad.
But... what if the torturers are not American? What if the CIA are down the hall having a cup of coffee, leaving it up to, shall we say, Egyptians to do the actual hands on stuff?
And then there's this exchange from John Bellinger, a senior lawyer for the State Department:
He stated that the group International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had access to "absolutely everybody" at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which holds suspects detained during the US war on terror.
When asked by journalists if the organisation had access to everybody held in similar circumstances elsewhere, he said: "No". He declined to explain further.
So we have torture, secret prisons, no access to the Red Cross, no lawyers, no Geneva Convention, disappearences... Remind you of anything?
Does the ban on US
Does the ban on US interrogators usind Torture extend to Private Contractors?
i believe not,
i believe not, un-fuckin-fortunately.
So we have torture, secret
So we have torture, secret prisons, no access to the Red Cross, no lawyers, no Geneva Convention, disappearences... Remind you of anything?
The Crusades?
Just like any other medium
Just like any other medium of exchange (e.g., money), language can either be used to spread truth and prosperity, or abused to spread lies and injustice.
Condi's words are another case in point.
I read the ICRC's Annual
I read the ICRC's Annual Report for 2004 and they did NOT acknowledge they had access to 'everyone', and Guantanamo has only been opened to them since. It was shameful that the two countries they criticized in particular for refusing them access were... the USA and the UK.