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57. Politifact apparently ignores the practices of proxy torture and torture after rendition, both of

which have continued under the Obama Administration. For instance, Matt Hentoff Hentoff cites reports that torture results in Afghanistan from "proxy' interrogations of Taliban suspects, including children, turned over to the Afghan gov't.: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff050813.php3#.UfMbYtg1n24

"Even more troubling," reports the Constitution Project, "is the evidence that Afghan detainees have been tortured after U.S. forces turned them over to the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS)."

The Constitution Project cites a 2011 report from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). According to the report:

"Torture was especially pervasive in Department 124, the NDS's facility for 'high-value detainees' in Kabul. Of 28 former detainees at Department 124, 26 told UNAMA they had been tortured by methods such as 'beating, suspension, and twisting and wrenching of genitals.' Seventeen of those 26 had been captured by coalition forces. Five of the 26 were children."

Hear that, President Obama? And dig this, sir: "According to The Washington Post, Department 124 is across the street from the United States' military headquarters in Kabul and was built with U.S. funds."

Torture sites paid for by your and my taxes.

Finally, in July 2011, the U.S. did ban prisoner transfers to the NDS in Kandahar. But, according to the Constitution Project, "there was evidence that the military's restrictions on transfers were not being applied to transfers by the CIA," which has a privileged place in Obama's soul.

Here's what one person transferred by the CIA told the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, as related by the Constitution Project: "I was severely beaten by cable in the head and neck. I was shackled and they connected the shackles to an electrical current and shocked me until I was unconscious. They also beat me on the back and waist very hard ... Even my tongue is severely damaged from the electric shock."

This may help you understand why the "liberating" United States is so detested in Afghanistan.