For a long time, certainly before 9/11 and way back even to the 80s
I've read articles involving torture and the School Of The Americas
in Fort Benning, Georgia, where apparently the CIA train officers and
NCOs from Latin American countries.
Roger
On 12/20/05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am listening to CBC's The Current as I write, to a USAmerican
> psychologist, Alfred McCoy, author of A Question of Torture, on the
> US's use of torture, and how what is happening now is leading to the
> normalization of torture by the US. He's especially appalled by the way
> the US representatives to the international community continue to 'lie'
> (basically his term) saying that the US does not torture, when in fact
> he asserts it has done so for decades, & much more so now.
>
> Not the merriest of news in this week....
>
> Doug
>
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