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CIA-veteranen och whistleblowern Kiriakou - om USA, Obama och tortyr
***RT 2013-02-09
En undersökning från Röda Korset visar att de flesta amerikaner idag tycker att tortyr är en acceptabel förhörsmetod. Bland den yngre delen av USA:s befolkning är hela 60%positiva till tortyr.
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- För fyra år sedan fördömde en övervägande del av amerikanerna tortyr.
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- Hur har tortyr kunnat bli den nya normen i USA och vad är det som har hänt under de senaste fyra åren?
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Polls by the American Red Cross show that the majority of Americans find torture acceptable. 60 per cent of young people agree. Whereas four years ago torture was largely condemned in the US. How did this become the new norm? What happened in those four years? *
President Obama adopted most of President Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, argues John Kiriakou - the former CIA official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices and is now set to go behind bars for it.
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After 9/11 Kiriakou served as the chief of counter-terrorist operations in Pakistan. Now he is heading to prison, having been sentenced to two-and-a-half years. Despite that, he says he is proud to have played a role in outlawing torture.
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Voting for Obama, Kiriakou believed that it would bring positive change – but it never came, he told RT. “I never believed I would be going to prison under a President Obama. Never.”
'We find ourselves murdering people and in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they are involved in any criminal or terrorist activity.'
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CIA was lying about torture even to its own staff - CIA veteran Kiriakou.
'Most people don’t realize this but President Obama has surrounded himself with the same Intelligence advisors who advised President Bush.'
Undersökning: - De flesta amerikaner tycker tortyr är acceptabelt - Globalizing Torture
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