Saturday, October 03, 2009

They tortured a man they knew was innocent...

The permanent danger of torture through human history is that it can be used by the torturers to manufacture or "create" evidence through confession. In fact, this has always been the prime function of torture: not to discover something that the torturers did not know beforehand, but to force a victim to tell the torturers what they were already convinced was true. If there is no evidence of a crime, or if the evidence is flawed or tainted, one sure way to convict someone is getting the suspect to confess. This is how an honorable man like John McCain came to sit in front of a camera and say things that were untrue and that incriminated him and his country. The confession then retroactively justifies the torture. See: he admitted it! He was a spy/traitor/heretic/terrorist/conspirator! Just watch the tape. More...

Don't miss:

  1. How the Pakistani army "interrogates" the Taliban...
  2. The strange, dark truths of Moammar Gadhafi...
  3. Bagram in Afghanistan, another Guantanamo...
  4. Lynndie England talks about Abu Ghraib (Video)
  5. British soldier's torture video...
  6. Young men and women being raped in Iran's prisons?

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