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Octafish

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2. Some of the folks we tortured were minors.

Reply to questionseverything (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 01:44 PM

Aug 2014

From your link:

Ali Khan, the father of detainee Majid Khan, “The Pakistani guards told my son that the boys were kept in a separate area upstairs and were denied food and water by other guards,” the statement read. “They were also mentally tortured by having ants or other creatures put on their legs to scare them and get them to say where their father was hiding.” (A pdf transcript is available here)

To alleviate a bit of my shared shame, a bit on the Secret Government:

JFK Conference: Dan Hardway Detailed how CIA Obstructed HSCA Investigation

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Keeping Brennan as CIA Director = Triumph of Secret Government [View all] Octafish Aug 2014 OP

a list of the cia's war crimes questionseverything Aug 2014 #1

Some of the folks we tortured were minors. Octafish Aug 2014 #2

they raped the children in front of their parents to make them talk questionseverything Aug 2014 #4

not a counterpunch fan, but, recommended bigtree Aug 2014 #3

what nixon did is nothing compared to this questionseverything Aug 2014 #5

There hasn't been a president in total control of the CIA since....ever. blm Aug 2014 #26

Firing Brennan would require political courage. Maedhros Aug 2014 #6

Well, when you remember what happened to hifiguy Aug 2014 #9

Ding Ding! Both JFK and RFK actually. 99th_Monkey Aug 2014 #12

After years of reading countless books hifiguy Aug 2014 #13

+10 n/t 99th_Monkey Aug 2014 #19

The official story doesn't support that and is said to be a baseless conspiracy theory as such TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #15

They are and they did. hifiguy Aug 2014 #16

Then burn it if we can and oppose it until we do it is. TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #20

The poor guy's patriotic and under a lot of pressure...or, something. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #7

Yeah, I think that message was subliminally communicated to me, too. QuestForSense Aug 2014 #8

Obama and the CIA�who runs Washington? Octafish Aug 2014 #32

The military-intelligence-industrial complex has been accountable hifiguy Aug 2014 #35

K&R. JDPriestly Aug 2014 #10

Who is Watching the CIA? Octafish Aug 2014 #29

K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Aug 2014 #11

Why this matters: ''Horticulture.'' Octafish Aug 2014 #30

We have an unelected secret part of the government spying on an elected branch of government. Enthusiast Aug 2014 #33

He does not only keep Brennan, sadoldgirl Aug 2014 #14

NSA...Booz Allen Hamilton...Carlyle Group...BFEE...our modern day slavemasters. Octafish Aug 2014 #31

Why are both men smiling? Ichingcarpenter Aug 2014 #17

I do believe that the "deep government" has a great deal of power and tblue37 Aug 2014 #18

Great Post Ichingcarpenter Aug 2014 #21

Or he could be doing what he is doing because it is his agenda TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #25

An agenda written by Poppy Bush and his cronies when Obama was in grade school? blm Aug 2014 #27

As evidenced by what? If so then all the other stuff has to wait because we are talking existential TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #36

Could not agree more with every word. hifiguy Aug 2014 #22

Here's a bit of "Creative Speculation" KoKo Aug 2014 #23

K&R woo me with science Aug 2014 #24

We are getting close to totalitarian showdown time imo. The full spectrum dominance GESTAPO lives. bobthedrummer Aug 2014 #28

He's a slick one.... kentuck Aug 2014 #34