Docs prove US bid to whitewash torture

April 8th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The documents, released by the US State Department on April 3 under the Freedom of Information Act, have corroborated the claims by Philip Zelikow, an adviser to then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who revealed in 2009 that Cheney’s office had attempted to destroy any evidence of his secret memo about the illegality of enhanced interrogation techniques, US-bases periodical Mother Jones reported.

The top US official had written the classified memo in 2006 in an attempt to warn his colleagues that many of the former US President George W. Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques were likely unlawful.

In 2009, Zelikow revealed the existence of the memo for Foreign Policy and later told Mother Jones that the “White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo.”

The top US official said he suspected Cheney’s involvement in the scenario, noting that the vice-president was not authorized to take such measures.

The term enhanced interrogation techniques, widely perceived by political observers and rights activists as torture, was adopted by the Bush administration and applied by the CIA and the Department of Defense to extract information from individuals captured in the aftermaths of 9/11.

In 2009, Washington was obliged by the Geneva Convention to repudiate the method.

The Amnesty International has called for Bush and others involved in torture to be tried under the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the US ratified in 1994.

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