Nate Carlile in Think Progress on 8/24 writes that a CIA interrogator threatened to kill the detainee's children. If this makes any American proud of their country allowing this sort of things for years, those who have run our country are too powerful and we deserve the world's hatred for allowing those who perpetrated such abuse to go unpunished. I'm sincerely hoping that so many eyes on this problem will solve it in the near future.
The Obama administration is setting strict new standards for terror suspect treatment.
Carlile goes on to state that Eric Holder, Attorney General will appoint a special prosecutor decide (or prove the obvious?) whether CIA interrogators and contractors broke laws. Leon Panetta, trying to save his agency's reputation wants to call this an 'old issue' and insists we drop it and move on. There are a few of us in the country who do not think that is a good idea as it sends the wrong message to those who will repeat history, whether it worked or not. Actually, we are told that Panetta threatened to quit. If he wants to hide his agency's past I think he should resign.
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