Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda

By A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 2:41pm |

The key evidence - the identity of bin Laden's courier - is revealed only after a detainee is brutally and repeatedly abused. Sitting at a table with his CIA torturer, who gives him food as part of a ruse, that detainee reveals this critical information only after the CIA torturer says to him: "I can always go eat with some other guy - and hang you back up to the ceiling." That's when the detainee coughs up the war name of bin Laden's courier -

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/zero-dark-thirty-cia-propaganda

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The much-maligned European court of human rights has this week shown itself at its very best: standing up for the rights of an individual who has been denied justice for almost nine years since he was abducted, secretly detained, and tortured under the CIA's rendition program.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/13/european-court-human...

by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 3:02pm

Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda

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