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Generals Against Torture

Monday, February 09, 2009

On January 22nd President Obama signed three executive orders guaranteeing humane and lawful treatment of terror suspects held by the U.S. government. Brigadier General James P. Cullen and 40 other high ranking officers in the U.S. military joined forces with Human Rights First to push for the reforms to the detainee system that President Obama implemented.

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Aaron Zimmer from Matawwan, NJ

"Psychopaths in Al Qaeda"..? I feel that no matter how well informed one may be about a given topic, as soon as you use a slanderous generality to refer to any aspect of your discussion, it immediately labels you (in my opinion) as spinning facts and manipulating ideas, which invalidates your expertise and knoweledge. Members of Al Qaeda my very well call us psychopaths for what we do...and are we? Please stay away from words that take you further away from the point you’re trying to make....because we want to know what you know, not wonder why you say it so.

Feb. 09 2009 01:52 PM
Bob Roistacher

Panetta told a Senate committee last Thursday that the administration would still continue to render captives to other countries, who claim not to torture prisioners; despite Obama's having previously state that rendition would no longer be used.

The new head of national security would also not say that waterboarding was torture. Change you can believe in, not.

Feb. 09 2009 01:42 PM

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