Human Rights Groups Want President Obama To Do More Than Release The CIA Interrogation Memos!

I would like someone to answer for the fact that the law was bent so that the Bush administration could justify the use of torture.As we all know,that violates the Geneva convention & makes the United States look like a hypocrite in the eyes of the world!I mean,how civilized are we if we condone torture?

But,some conservatives are angry that President Obama gave away CIA interrogation secrets.They say that those methods worked because there have not been any more terrorist attacks in the U.S. And their argument is that this will jeopardize the safety of Americans.Isn't it funny how conservatives always argue for transparency in government,but they are mad because President Obama gave the public the truth about torture?!!

Bush said that we did not torture,but we did!That should have been exposed & I'm glad that it was.People call President Obama arrogant,but look at how condescending George Bush was when he lied about not torturing people in this video.And some folks want to defend his actions.I cannot understand that!I mean if you are a conservative worried about government expansion,then you should be outraged by these documents.Because George Bush used the "war on terror" to increase his executive power.And push all legal boundaries on torture.


Even though President Obama did release those CIA documents,I do not believe that he will go any further.And the possibility that there will be no repercussions for the torture that happened during President Bush's time in office has a lot of human rights groups upset!Here's more from CNN:

"The decision to release the memos was met with criticism among conservatives and CIA veterans who warned that the highly detailed documents would serve as a counterinterrogation training manual for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said Thursday that the release of the memos would make the country less safe.

The documents spell out in often disconcerting detail how interrogation methods were to be administered.

Prisoners could be kept shackled in a standing position for as many as 180 hours. The documents provide statistics, noting that more than a dozen CIA prisoners had been deprived of sleep for at least 48 hours, three for more than 96, and one for the nearly eight-day maximum stated on one memo. The documents include elaborate legal debate over waterboarding, the interrogation technique that makes a prisoner believe he is in imminent danger of drowning. The memos spell out that a prisoner could be waterboarded at most six times during a two-hour session, and they require an attending physician to be on duty in case a prisoner didn't recover after being returned to an upright position.

In that event, "the intervening physician would perform a tracheotomy," said a May 10, 2005, memo.

The memos were crafted by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, a unit at the center of a series of legal debates during the Bush administration over the limits of executive power and counterterrorism tactics.

The memos were designed to fill in details left out of more theoretical opinions—some of which eventually surfaced publicly—that were produced by the Justice Department as it sought to lay out the legal boundaries of the Bush administration's "war on terror."

The four documents cover a period from 2002 until 2005, when the government was recalculating its approach to detention and interrogation matters in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.

The release of the documents was preceded by months of jostling between CIA and Justice Department officials over how much to disclose. A Justice Department official said Atty. Gen. Eric Holder urged full disclosure to help restore trust in a department that had been beleaguered by criticism that it had twisted the law to fit the Bush administration's political ends.

The release of the memos was driven to a large degree by an ACLU lawsuit aimed at forcing the government to disclose secret rulings issued in connection with the CIA's detention and interrogation programs.

But Obama's decision to shield agency employees from legal liability drew criticism from human-rights groups. Holder said the Justice Department would provide legal representation to CIA employees facing legal challenge in the United States or overseas."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the whole article here.