DSK wrote:

Vito wrote:
There is good reason to think we stopped it long ago.

Stopped what, handing over prisoners for turture by other countries, or
torturing them ourselves?

I'd be interested in hearing your reasons to think either has stopped.

... Witness our response
to the Abu Grabbe (sp?) scandal. It is NOT our policy to physically torture
prisoners. It happens but is generally punished.


Then why were those who set the policy not punished?

The Abu Ghraib (or however you wanna spell it) scandal is just the tip
of the iceberg. Mistreatment of prisoners is on the rise in the U.S., by
the military and by police.

Have you read or heard of some of the work done by Manfred Nowak,
recently appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Torture? He thinks the US
may now be operating "Prison Ships", or "Interrogation Ships" away from
prying eyes of the Red Cross and his own International Commission of
Jurists.

The latest crap with "Scooter" reminds me of the Abu Ghraib folly,
punish the little guy but not the Machiavellian brains behind the
operation. Who was the boy wonder in the CIA that decided that Dick
Cheney had the need to know the names of any covert operatives? Why did
Dick then decide that his Chief of Staff needed this name?

Cheers
Martin