Detainee's Suit Says Abuse was Videotaped
Lawyers for a detainee held at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., allege in court papers to be filed today that their client was systematically abused and that he was told there were cabinets full of videotapes depicting his treatment at the hands of the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Editorial Column: NO MORE: No Torture. No Exceptons.
The unifying message of the articles that follow is, simply, Stop. In the wake of September 11, the United States became a nation that practiced torture.
One of the facts learned while I was in training is that 100% of torture victims will develop PTSD according to the IFOC. We put people on trial for torture and now there are some in this country thinking it's ok to torture. It is never ok.
There has been a lot of talk about needing answers right away to save lives. A scenario has been raised that if you know an attack is coming, you need to know when and where to prevent it. Given the fact that the person being tortured is either hell bent on attack being carried out, or has no real information, they want the torture to stop. They will say anything to make it stop. How do you know they are telling the truth? McCain said he lied while being tortured to make it stop. Others have said they said anything they thought would work and stop the torture. Most experts agree that torture does not work. Aside from that, when was it suddenly thought of as being a tool this nation would use against anyone when we used to put people who did it in trial?
