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martedì 9 dicembre 2014
The US Senate has the report on the use of torture after September 11
The report on the violence of the CIA detainees imprisoned following the attacks of September 2001 has come to its conclusions. Conclusions that are contained in the 6,000 pages of the report and will not be made public in full, but will only be in the public domain is a summary of about 500 pages. The object of the survey are the methods used to prevent further attacks, according to the will of the administration led by President George W. Bush; such methods included torture, abduction and custody in prisons often unofficial and therefore not subject to US laws. The report contains conclusions that will discharge the indiscriminate use of torture methods and attests that, about the use of such methods, the CIA lied to Congress and the White House in an official manner. The survey work will cost about $ 40 million and has been developed over a period of three years. Despite the majority and Republicans refuse the conclusions of the report, the work does not belong only to members of the Democratic Party but has Vistula active participation of two senators of the Republican Party. One contained in the report does not present a novelty: the testimonies of prisoners and also of the same CIA agents, issued directly and indirectly, had made public the methods used by the US for the prevention of other possible attacks and the search of the culprits of the the Twin Towers and the Pentagon; However, the relationship of the US Senate confirms in an official manner, that the nation committed to export democracy in the world, has made use of torture through its officials to achieve these goals. It was a lawlessness with which they were trying to protect their country, including through abuse and violation of the most basic civil rights. For these reasons the rules adopted by the CIA are defined disproportionate to the aims which were to pursue. The commission that investigated these facts has been the subject of espionage by the CIA, which has also prepared its own report to refute these arguments, in order to reduce as much as possible the impact of the Senate report on American society. Obama, who has had the great merit of putting an end to the methods of preventive detention and secret, is in a difficult situation: the politically advanced Republican can not do record that the feelings of the country will only be lenient towards the work CIA, but internationally the occupant of the White House will, inevitably explanation. The US president has indicated that the peculiar situations in which they found themselves the United States after the September 11, generated methods outside the law for the protection of the country and that this, therefore, must be a mitigating environment in which accrues methods disputed. Certainly in the US has grown, at the time, a sense of disorientation total, for an attack within the borders of the state as it had never happened; but what has not been prefigured the lead single of some officials, as a systematic organization of official party status. The fact is not to be underestimated, often the United States are in the front row for the protection of rights in relation to other countries, such as China and Russia, as the case Ukrainian teaches. It must also be stated that in these nations would not be possible to make public such a violation, but there is no doubt that American prestige at international level, can only be reduced, even if the facts investigated concern aspects already known. There is also another aspect that does not help to improve the image of the US and that relating to the punishment of the persons that made these tortious acts of basic rights; they, in fact, will not be subject to any penalty, administrative and even criminal because it be confidential. With this condition, the Senate report has no practical effect, other than to bring to the methods practiced by the US state. Certainly this is not a trivial matter, which is an admission of guilt, but it is a general admission that takes only a political value, without any practical effect. The question presented to US officials, from Obama to those of lesser degree a high rate of concern, but it can not be resolved without a political unit, of which the US at the time, not only do not have, but which are very far .
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