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From: Linda on 25 Jul 2008 19:57
On Jul 25, 4:37 pm, Linda <Indomitab...(a)netzero.com> wrote:
> http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/21/torture/index.html
>
> Leaders of the free world
> (updated below)
> Glenn Greenwald
>
> In Britain, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons has
> just issued its Human Rights Annual Report (.pdf). It concluded that
> America's word can no longer be trusted when it comes to claims about
> torture, rendition and human rights abuses. From The Guardian
> yesterday:
>
> Britain can no longer believe what Americans tell us about torture, an
> MPs' report to be published today claims. . . .
>
> In a damning criticism of US integrity, the House of Commons Foreign
> Affairs Committee said ministers should no longer take at face value
> statements from senior politicians, including George Bush, that
> America does not resort to torture in the light of the CIA admitting
> it used "waterboarding". The interrogation technique was unreservedly
> condemned by Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who said it amounted to
> torture.
>
> A change in approach would have implications for extradition of
> prisoners to the US, especially in terror or security cases, as the UK
> has signed the UN convention which bars sending individuals to nations
> where they are at risk of being tortured. . . .
>
> Today's committee report said there were "serious implications" of the
> striking inconsistencies between British ministers continuing to
> believe the Bush administration when it denies using torture. "The UK
> can no longer rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, and
> we recommend that the government does not rely on such assurances in
> the future," said the committee. "We also recommend that the
> government should immediately carry out an exhaustive analysis of
> current US interrogation techniques on the basis of such information
> as is publicly available or which can be supplied by the US."
>
> The BBC noted that the report also concluded that the British
> Government must not trust the word of the U.S. Government in light of
> prior deceit with regard to rendition:
> The MPs also challenged the government to check more actively that
> Britain had not been used by the Americans for so called "rendition"
> flights -- when detainees are taken to countries where bans on torture
> may not apply.

The United Pathocracy of America has YET to account for the
disposition or whereabouts of 11,000 of the 30,000 politically
independent Americans whom the unconstitutional organization calling
itself FALCON kidnapped, then disappeared without a trace in 2005,
2006, and 2007.

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