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German Court: CIA Abducted, Tortured and Sodomized a German Citizen

Posted on December 14, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
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Torture Was Systemic, Doesn’t Work … and Both Dems and Repubs Approved It

The Guardian reports:

CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on Thursday.

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“The grand chamber of the European court of human rights unanimously found that Mr el-Masri was subjected to forced disappearance, unlawful detention, extraordinary rendition outside any judicial process, and inhuman and degrading treatment” ….

“Masri’s treatment at Skopje airport at the hands of the CIA rendition team – being severely beaten, sodomised, shackled and hooded, and subjected to total sensory deprivation – had been carried out in the presence of state officials of [Macedonia] and within its jurisdiction,” the court ruled.

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UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, described the ruling as “a key milestone in the long struggle to secure accountability of public officials implicated in human rights violations committed by the Bush administration CIA in its policy of secret detention, rendition and torture“.

He said the US government must issue an apology for its “central role in a web of systematic crimes and human rights violations by the Bush-era CIA, and to pay voluntary compensation to Mr el-Masri”.

Indeed, as we’ve repeatedly noted, torture - including physical torture, as well as sodomy and other types of sexual torture – were widespread and systematic.

We’ve also thoroughly documented that torture is wholly ineffective in producing intelligence, and severely weakens national security. And that it was used for wholly political reasons.
Today, on the eve of the release of the major propaganda film “Zero Dark Thirty”, the Washington Post notes:

The Senate intelligence committee approved a long-awaited report Thursday concluding that harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said.

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Officials familiar with the report said it makes a detailed case that subjecting prisoners to ­“enhanced” interrogation techniques did not help the CIA find Osama bin Laden and often were counterproductive in the broader campaign against al-Qaeda.

The committee chairman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein ­(D-Calif.), declined to discuss specific findings but released a written statement describing decisions to allow the CIA to build a network of secret prisons and employ harsh interrogation measures as “terrible mistakes.”

“I also believe this report will settle the debate once and for all over whether our nation should ever employ coercive interrogation techniques,” Feinstein said.

While the press is playing this as a partisan issue – with Democrats condemning torture and Republicans saying it was a necessary evil – Democrats like Pelosi, Harman, Rockefeller actually knew all about it and approved, or at least covered it up.

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Liberty is most definitely sobbing ..

How The CIA Trained Shooter In Connecticut! Shooting Tied To European Court Ruling Against The CIA!

Friday, December 14, 2012 12:06

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By now, all of America has heard about the shocking school shooting in Connecticut; what most Americans have not yet realized is that this shooting is another ‘false flag’ event designed by the CIA and the SADISTIC criminals within the United States government to institute TOTAL CONTROL over the masses.

Yes, this shooting is another shocking example of exactly how EVIL these people are; the mere fact that they would MASSACRE school children to achieve their goals of the disarmament of the American public is absolutely attrocious.

These people MUST be stopped at all costs!

It is not a coincidence that this has occurred the same day that a European Court has handed down a ruling against the CIA, labeling them as torturers and condemning extraordinary rendtion.

Freedom in America and therefore the entire world will not survive as long as these EVIL henchmen are permitted to continue to implement their agenda. From Wikipedia:

Project MKUltra was the code name for a covert research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans through the CIA’s Scientific Intelligence Division.

The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973.[1]

The program engaged in many illegal activities[2][3][4];

in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy.[5][6][7][8]

MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people’s individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis,sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.[9]

The scope of Project MKUltra was broad, with research undertaken at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges and universities, as well as hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies.[10]

The CIA operated through these institutions using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA’s involvement.[11]

MKUltra was allocated 6 percent of total CIA funds.[12]

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Friday, December 14, 2012

European Court of Human Rights Finally Uses the Word 'Torture' to Describe CIA Treatment of Detainee

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Joe Wright


While Kathryn Bigelow's new movie Zero Dark Thirty is generating controversy for its depiction of waterboarding and other so-called "harsh tactics," a European Court has become the first to rule in favor of a detainee in the war on terror who they specifically state was tortured by the CIA.

American courts have continued to throw out lawsuits brought against the U.S. government, and noted architects of interrogation policies such as John Yoo and Donald Rumsfeld. Even those brought by natural born U.S. citizens, as in the case of Jose Padilla, have been dismissed. Padilla's family has now taken their fight to an international human rights tribunal for redress.

The case of German citizen, Khalid El-Masri as seen in the video below, is finally a small light of hope for people who have suffered at the hands of the CIA's brutality. Khalid experienced some of the cruelties that others endured when caught in sweeping dragnets or false information given by paid informants, such as the case of German-born Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz (his horrific story of five years of torture in Guantanamo Bay can be read here). Now, after 9 years, El-Masri has been recognized as a victim of U.S. policy.

The European Court of Human Rights unequivocally stated that the treatment El-Masri received after being picked up while on vacation in Macedonia was:

A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights on account of the inhuman and degrading treatment to which Mr El-Masri was subjected while being held in a hotel in Skopje, on account of his treatment at Skopje Airport, which amounted to torture (emphasis added)

This is a significant ruling, as it is the very first time that a court anywhere has used the word torture, instead of the many euphemisms. Khalid El-Masri will receive $78,000 from Macedonia for their responsibility in handing him over to the CIA for rendition.

Clearly, for full justice to be served there must be penalties levied against the CIA, the architects of their interrogation programs, as well as the U.S. government itself.

Khalid El-Masri's case is certainly to be celebrated as a small step in the right direction, and hopefully will serve as a precedent to be used in future cases brought against those responsible for their illegal and dehumanizing treatment of innocent people unlucky enough to draw their attention.

Other sources:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/dec/13/cia-tortured-sodomised-terror-suspect

http://www.alternet.org/innocent-man-kidnapped-stripped-beaten-and-drugged-secret-cia-jail-court-rules-his-favor-against-cia

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

'Zero Dark Thirty' Falling on the World

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John Galt
Activist Post

Kathryn Bigelow is once again drawing attention; this time for the follow-up to her award-winning movie The Hurt Locker. The focus of her new movie is on the role torture has played in American foreign policy in a post-9/11 world. Namely, the hunting of Osama bin Laden and his subsequent death.

America's torture doctrine is now enshrined, as courts at all levels have concluded that it is best for the military to decide American morality. The latest insult comes via Jose Padilla's family who have had to appeal to an international human rights tribunal for basic protections that their son should have been afforded within the U.S. legal system as a natural-born American citizen.

The sweeping net of counterterrorism has subjected innocent people to medieval cruelties ... and these people have had their unjust suffering fall on deaf ears. Who would extol such barbarous acts as justified? Hollywood, of course.

Now to the big screen comes a faint echo of what has been crafted in depth across cable TV series' like 24 and Homeland: there are real bad guys out there who have their finger on the button of imminent nuclear Armageddon and the U.S. Cavalry must by any means necessary ride in to save the day at the very last minute.

It is intriguing, sort of like comic books can be -- heroes and villains battling behind the scenes to destroy or save common and unaware humanity -- but, like comic books, the narrative is often black and white, having been created by minds who have a very sound ability to tell stories, and a very limited ability to go beyond the confines of narrative fantasy.

Zero Dark Thirty is set for studio release on December 19th, but is already generating controversy for its opening thirty-minute depiction of torture.

According to the official description:

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar(R) winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man.

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If we can put the melodrama aside for a moment, we'll clearly see that some very substantiated facts point to an entire myth still being created around the character of Osama bin Laden - the perfect bogeyman to initiate the endless global war on terror. And, according to Zero Dark Thirty apparently, the myth is extended to torture having been implemented as a last resort to catch (then execute) this prince of darkness.

Nothing could be further from the truth, since, as Keith Johnson detailed in May, 2011, there is much evidence that shows Osama bin Laden -- a CIA creation from the beginning -- very well might have died in Tora Bora back in 2001. As Johnson writes:

But don’t just take my word for it. Top terror experts, intelligence analysts, academics, government officials, and even major political figures around the globe tend to agree that, “All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama Bin Laden.”

Zero Dark Thirty clearly goes beyond poetic license into the realm of political license to offer up support for torturing real people in order to find ghosts.

Regarding the portrayal of torture itself, Andrew Sullivan offers the following screed in his criticism of the movie's stated plot, and his assertion that Kathryn Bigelow has outed herself as a torture apologist and propagandist:

If Bigelow is calling torture 'harsh tactics' she is complicit in its defense. And lies do have an agenda, whatever Bigelow says. They pretend that the law allows torture, they violate the historical record, and they make war crimes more likely in the future. Yes, it makes for a more thrilling ride if we start with a torture scene in a movie drama. But actual torture, authorized illegally by war criminals, is not fiction and is far too grave a matter to be exploited as a plot device. It is illegal because it is evil and because it provides unreliable and often false leads, not real ones. Bigelow cannot argue that her movie has no agenda, or duck behind the excuse that this is a 'movie' and not a 'documentary'. If it lies to promote the efficacy of torture, it has a very real agenda. And that is a defense of barbarism as entertainment, and as the law of the land. (Source)

With Osama bin Laden's choreographed death, the Islamic world supposedly has been given a martyr, justifying the expansion of Al-Qaeda in particular. This would seem to justify continuing the war on terror and, yes, the torture. And the narrative will be helped along with this movie; propaganda that the establishment will likely reward with another Oscar nomination for Bigelow.

The new mainstream American value of torture is steeped in self-deception, legal rewrites, and propaganda embraced and emboldened by Hollywood. We idolize torturers in our favorite TV programs, and are happy to see our enemies (real and imagined) vicariously taken apart in order to protect our beacon of freedom. It is an Orwellian undertaking.

Only a massive propaganda effort and a healthy dose of self-delusion can maintain torture's legitimacy when it has been proven to be completely unreliable in true intelligence gathering -- not even when working against a ticking bomb, or "the world's most dangerous man."


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