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Recently PBS aired a documentary called 'Torturing Democracy'. It recounted in some detail the stories of Bagrahm, Guantanamo, Abu Graib, unspecified 'dark sites', and the complicity of high Bush administration officials, including Bush himself, in the terrible acts committed at those places. This program repeatedly mentioned several names as driving the atrocities, causing formerly normal people to become insane. Many of the tortured were victims of bounty programs and family vendettas, innocent of any terrorist acts. How many? No one will know since incriminating evidence was obtained via water boarding, sleep deprivation, and extreme sensory overload to the extent that the prisoners said anything that the torturers wanted to hear. Even the FBI criticized these techniques as being ineffective in obtaining correct information.
We must investigate the criminality here and bring those responsible to account. We must do this ourselves in the USA and not let other countries (like Italy) where there are warrants in existence do it for us.
