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Posted by : srider on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 03:02 PM
 		   
 
Under sharp questioning at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Porter J. Goss, said he could not assure Congress that the CIA torture practices were legal. Using our Bush Lies Secret Decoder Ring - this was an admission of guilt.
While he was being sharply questioned by members of the US Senate, CIA director Porter Goss virtually admitted that the CIA had systematically tortured prisoners in direct violation of US law. Of course these were not his actual words, because no member of the Bush Administration would ever directly admit to any of their thousands of crimes against humanity and the planet.

An article in the New York Times discusses Goss' refusal to deny the well documented torture practices authorized by Our Glorious Christian Leader, but he did shy away from making any claims that the immoral and inhumane practices of the CIA were legal.

Mr. Goss's comments came closer than previous statements from the agency to an admission that its despicable practices might have crossed the line legally, and had the effect of raising new questions about the C.I.A.'s conduct in detaining and questioning terror suspects, and in transferring them to foreign governments, in what remains one of the most secretive areas of the government's efforts to combat abstract nouns that can never surrender, like terrorism.

The CIA continues to use the services of Bayard Foreign Marketing, a leading provider of international torture flights, Mr. Goss did not admit.

Mr Goss also did not comment on the numbers of US prisoners that have died during CIA interrogations. Human rights organizations have documented 37 cases of death by torture, some estimate that as many as 100 have died during US or proxy-nation torture sessions.

At the hearing, Mr. Goss acknowledged that there had been "some uncertainty" in the past among C.I.A. officers about what interrogation techniques were specifically permitted and prohibited.The world famous Torture Papers, authored by US Attorney General Alberto "Torture Time" Gonzales, which claimed that Our Glorious Christian Leader was not bound by international laws forbidding torture, were issued in 2002 but vigorously denied (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) by the administration in 2004.

In summary, the CIA chief sort of kinda admitted that we often torture towel heads to death, but, you know, no quotes.

Remember, it is OK when we torture people, Alberto "Torture Time" Gonzales says so.

 
CIA Chief Declines to Say US Torture is Legal

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