(headline from https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/giuliani-calls-for-probe-to-end-says-we-have-tortured-this-president-enough)
Giuliani Calls For Mueller Probe To End: ‘We’ve Tortured This President Enough’
(from The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot)
". . . Shortly after 9:00 PM on March 12, 1956, Jesus de Galindez, a lecturer in Spanish and government at Columbia University, finished leading a graduate seminar at Hamilton Hall and headed home. One of his students offered to drive him to the Columbus Circle subway station so he could take a downtown train to his Greenwich Village apartment. He was never seen again by friends or colleagues. . . Galindez was taken to a torture chamber in the capital city, (of the Dominican Republic) where he was stripped, handcuffed, and hoisted on a pulley. Then he was slowly lowered into a tub of boiling water. What remained of him was thrown to the sharks, a favorite disposal method of the dictator (Rafael Trujillo). . . "
(from http://www.alternet.org/story/140137/american_amnesia%3A_we_forget_our_atrocities_almost_as_soon_as_we_commit_them)
". . . Why else send prisoners where they would be beyond the reach of the law -- a place, incidentally, that Washington is using in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba at the point of a gun?. . . torture has been routinely practiced from the early days of the conquest of the national territory, and continued to be used as the imperial ventures of the "infant empire" -- as George Washington called the new republic. . . torture was the least of the many crimes of aggression, terror, subversion, and economic strangulation that have darkened U.S. history, much as in the case of other great powers. . . "
But don't worry, Donald Trump's rantings, Kate Winslet's birthday and the 'adventures' of Real Housewives will soon divert our attention and . . . life goes on . . .
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(based upon http://www.alternet.org/story/140137/american_amnesia%3A_we_forget_our_atrocities _almost_as_soon_as_we_commit_them)
. . . Torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise-latter of which is . . . surprising. Guantanamo was a torture chamber; a place used in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba. Torture has been routinely practiced; the least of the many crimes of aggression, terror, subversion, and economic strangulation darkening the history of the U.S. and many other great powers. Surprising is essentially the reactions to the release of those Justice Department memos, even by some of the most eloquent and forthright critics of Bush malfeasance: Paul Krugman, Hans Morgenthau, who as a scrupulous scholar, also recognized that the historical record was radically inconsistent with that "transcendent purpose." . . .
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(from http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/28/palin-waterboarding-is-how-we-baptize-terrorists/?hpt=hp_t3)
". . . Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a capacity crowd at a National Rifle Association rally how she would baptize terrorists if she was an elected official.
“If I was in charge,” Palin said Saturday in Indianapolis, “they would know, waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who ran against then Sen.-Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, with Palin as his running mate, has spoken out against waterboarding, calling it illegal and ineffective. During the Vietnam War, McCain endured years of torture and imprisonment as a prisoner of war under the North Vietnamese.
In her speech, Palin also said the Washington insiders who called the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood a case of workplace violence “don’t know what is right.” That shooting was carried out by Maj. Nidal Hassan.
“Not when that evil Muslim terrorist Major Hassan massacres his fellow military soldiers at Fort Hood,” she said.
Characterizing Hassan, “that devil” as a ‘disgruntled employee,’” is hypocritical, said Palin.
Palin called liberals hypocrites for their stance on issues varying from gun control to torture at the NRA event that was part of the organization’s 2014 convention.
But she backtracked later, saying, “Not all intolerant anti-freedom leftist liberals are hypocrites.”
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