Post by ck4829 on Nov 23, 2016 11:44:25 GMT
As President-elect Trump rolls out key cabinet appointments, a worry for Americans and international allies alike is whether America plans to return to the failed policies of the past on interrogation and torture of suspected enemies.
Just yesterday, asked about resuming waterboarding, Vice President-elect Pence warned us that “we’re going to have a president again who will never say what we’ll never do.”
Rep. Pompeo (Picked for CIA) has spoken out against President Obama’s efforts at ending the United States’ interrogation program and trying to close Guantanamo Bay.
Sen. Sessions (Attorney General) stood in opposition to 78 of his Senate colleagues who supported an amendment introduced by Sen. John McCain to a National Defense Authorization Act reaffirming the prohibition against torture of enemy combatants.
Ret. LTG Flynn (National Security Advisor) refused to denounce numerous statements made by President Trump that were in blatant opposition to the Geneva Conventions, like the killing of suspected terrorists’ families, saying that he “would have to see what the circumstances of that situation were.”
Amid these ominous clouds, there are bright spots. Citizens are actively taking a stand. In North Carolina, for example, a non-partisan, blue-ribbon Commission of Inquiry on Torture has been launched to investigate that state’s role in supporting the U.S. torture program by hosting CIA rendition aviation at public airports and providing muscle for the CIA’s black-site torture prisons.
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-return-to-torture_us_58332cf1e4b030997bc088e2
That last thing is what we need more of.
Just yesterday, asked about resuming waterboarding, Vice President-elect Pence warned us that “we’re going to have a president again who will never say what we’ll never do.”
Rep. Pompeo (Picked for CIA) has spoken out against President Obama’s efforts at ending the United States’ interrogation program and trying to close Guantanamo Bay.
Sen. Sessions (Attorney General) stood in opposition to 78 of his Senate colleagues who supported an amendment introduced by Sen. John McCain to a National Defense Authorization Act reaffirming the prohibition against torture of enemy combatants.
Ret. LTG Flynn (National Security Advisor) refused to denounce numerous statements made by President Trump that were in blatant opposition to the Geneva Conventions, like the killing of suspected terrorists’ families, saying that he “would have to see what the circumstances of that situation were.”
Amid these ominous clouds, there are bright spots. Citizens are actively taking a stand. In North Carolina, for example, a non-partisan, blue-ribbon Commission of Inquiry on Torture has been launched to investigate that state’s role in supporting the U.S. torture program by hosting CIA rendition aviation at public airports and providing muscle for the CIA’s black-site torture prisons.
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-return-to-torture_us_58332cf1e4b030997bc088e2
That last thing is what we need more of.