UNDERNEWS: Torture update

December 10, 2014

Brennan had detailed knowledge of "enhanced interrogation techniques"

141 countries still torture


Media gives lots of free time to the torture touters

The CIA repeatedly cited an Israeli high court decision to justify torture, according to the long-awaited US Senate report on the agency’s torture program.

Struggling to control the CIA’s crumbling torture narrative, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, attempted to derail US Senator Diane Feinstein live on CNN, by interrupting the Senator repeatedly, insinuating that the report was wrong, almost acting as an apologist for Washington’s 13 year-long torture boondoggle.

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December 10, 2014

Torture update

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