The Torture Report, and What It Left Out

[Occam's Banana]

Ep. 304 The Torture Report, and What It Left Out
http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-304-the-torture-report-and-what-it-left-out/
Tom Woods (13 December 2014)

What are we to make of the Senate committee report on the CIA's use of torture? Scott Horton gives you the only briefing you'll need -- complete with the information the report left out. Scroll down for the show notes and the mp3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQLXZwR4KM



The Senate committee report on the CIA’s use of torture has generated intense discussion. I can think of no one better to explain the significance of it all than Scott Horton, a regular guest on the Tom Woods Show.

About the Guest

Scott Horton is the host of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and KUCR 88.3 FM in Riverside, California. He hosts the Scott Horton Show Monday through Friday from 12pm to 3pm Eastern on the Liberty Radio Network.

Guest’s Website

ScottHorton.org

Guest’s Twitter

@ScottHortonShow

Links Mentioned

Senate Committee’s Report on the CIA’s Use of Torture (Executive Summary)
Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel.net
Ray McGovern, “What’s the Next Step to Stop Torture?”
Melvin A. Goodman, “Torture Report Exposes Sadism and Lies”
Jason Ditz at Antiwar.com

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[ClydeCoulter]

 

[Suzanimal]

Horrible...

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Bump.

 

[jmdrake]

When the CIA would tell their bosses "This guys all tortured out" they would be told "Go back to work! I want to hear the name Saddam!"

Enough said.

Well....not enough said. He also covered anal rape as one of the torture techniques used as well as "credible threats to kidnap and torture people's children." All I have to say to certain people who thought I was being extreme in my hypotheticals....I told you so.

 

[Danke]

Doug Cassel:Â If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?
John Yoo:Â No treaty.
Doug Cassel:Â Also no law by Congress -- that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo...
John Yoo:Â I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

 

[Suzanimal]

See The Playlist Used By The CIA To Torture Detainees

According to declassified reports, video evidence and testimony from whistleblower guards and soldiers, the US government used music to torture detainees in a number of different ways.

In some cases, songs would be played in repetition for hours or days on end, as to drive the prisoner to insanity. Music was also used to prevent detainees from sleeping, which is another way of creating delirium and vulnerability in the detainees.
Some songs were chosen because they were annoying, while others were chosen because they may have been offensive to the prisoner’s culture or religion.
Below are some of the songs that have been identified most often as being used by the US military in their torture programs. Some of the songs are annoying and could understandably be considered torture, specifically the Barney & Friends theme song and the Meow Mix commercial.
However, some of the artists featured like 2Pac, Rage Against The Machine and (hed)pe are actually pretty good, and are actually philosophically opposed to what the military is doing.

Deicide: Fuck Your God
Dope: Die MF Die, Take Your Best Shot
Eminem: White America, Kim
Barney & Friends: theme song
Drowning Pool: Bodies
Metallica: Enter Sandman
Meow Mix: commercial jingle
Janeane Garofalo/Ben Stiller: chapter from the Feel This Audiobook
Sesame Street: theme song
David Gray: Babylon
AC/DC: Shoot to Thrill, Hell’s Bells
Bee Gees: Stayin’ Alive
Tupac: All Eyez On Me
Christina Aguilera: Dirrty
Neil Diamond: America
Rage Against the Machine: unspecified songs
Don McLean: American Pie
Saliva: Click Click Boom
Matchbox Twenty: Cold
(hed)pe: Swan Dive
Prince: Raspberry Beret

http://theantimedia.org/playlist-used-by-the-cia-to-torture-detainees/

 

[UWDude]

Cheney Calls for International Ban on Torture Reports

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/cheney-calls-international-ban-torture-reports

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Former Vice-President Dick Cheney on Tuesday called upon the nations of the world to “once and for all ban the despicable and heinous practice of publishing torture reports.”

“Like many Americans, I was shocked and disgusted by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s publication of a torture report today,” Cheney said in a prepared statement. “The transparency and honesty found in this report represent a gross violation of our nation’s values.”...

 

[vita3]

@ 6:50 Horton says Scott McClellan is Ann Richardson's son.

WHAT?? That's crazy talk

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Bump.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Maybe it was left out for some good moral cause of freedom.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Reading about the torture is torture in itself...
I can't even believe that "torture" is debatable !!!

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Bump.

 

[Occam's Banana]

CIA Sends Torture Report Down Memory Hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCSUBOxM8So
Ron Paul Liberty Report (22 February 2016)

What if Congress investigated the Executive Branch's unlawful activities but the Executive Branch had the power to make sure no one could see it? That is exactly what is happening with the Senate's report on the CIA's torture program. The CIA is demanding that the report itself be destroyed. Checks and balances?

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Goons gonna goon...