09 março 2008

Tortura democrática aka terrorismo de Estado


ou 'faz o que eu digo, mas não faças o que eu faço.



Waterboarding was used for interrogation at least as early as the Spanish Inquisition [...] It is considered to be torture by a wide range of authorities, including legal experts,politicians, war veterans,intelligence officials, military judges, and human rights organizations.



In 2007 waterboarding led to a political scandal in the United States when the press reported that the CIA had waterboarded extrajudicial prisoners and that the Justice Department had authorized this procedure.



The CIA has admitted waterboarding Al-Qaida suspects Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

The waterboarding technique was characterized in 2005 by former CIA director Porter J. Goss as a "professional interrogation technique.

Assim se lê na Wikipedia.

E assim acontece na 'terra da liberdade'. O que seria se não fosse...

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