[Vision2020] Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture

[Tom Hansen]

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"If you only knew the power of the Dark Side."

- Darth Vader

> Jane Mayer's *The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror
> Turned Into a War on American
> Ideals*<http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Inside-Terror-
American/dp/038552639> 3/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215778132&sr=8-1>
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> http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/07/11/a-glimpse-inside-jane-
ma> yers-the-dark-side/
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11detain.html?_r=1&oref=sl> 
ogin
> 
> Text below from nytimes URL above:
> 
> WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret
repo> rt
> that the Central Intelligence
> 
Agency<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/
> central_intelligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org>'s
> interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture
an> d
> could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of
wa> r
> crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.
> 
> The book says that the International Committee of the Red Cross declared 
in
> the report, given to the C.I.A. last year, that the methods used on Abu
> 
Zubaydah<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/abu_z
> ubaydah/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
> the first major Qaeda figure the United States captured, were
> "categorically" torture, which is illegal under both American and
> international law.
> 
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