LIARS INSIST TO LIE

On april the 1st Brazilians celebrate the “Lie Day”…

Americans could likewise  apply it as a lift as American senators have claimed not to be aware of torture crimes commited in black sites abroad.

Please refer to the article below. It is self explanatory:

 

‘CIA lied to justify torture programme’, US Senate report to claim

US Senate committee will vote on Thursday to declassify 400-page summary of damning review exposing failings and exaggerations in the CIA’s post-September 11 torture and rendition programme

The 6,300-page report is likely to shatter claims by George W. Bush administration officials, including the former US vice-president Dick Cheney Photo: Getty

By Peter Foster in Washington

9:57PM BST 01 Apr 2014

The CIA lied and exaggerated about its secret kidnap and interrogation programme in the years after September 11, misleading the public and the government about the effectiveness of torture, a comprehensive new report by the US Senate is expected to claim.

The 6,300-page report is likely to shatter claims by George W. Bush administration officials, including the former US vice-president Dick Cheney, that so-called “enhanced interrogation” was an essential tool in the war on terror and the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

The report by the US Senate intelligence committee is based on a close reading of more than six million classified documents and includes case studies on virtually every single prisoner held in CIA “black sites” since 2001.

Its damning conclusions were approved by the 15-member committee in December 2012 but have since been bitterly contested by the CIA. However a vote is now expected on Thursday to declassify a 400-page executive summary that could be published as early as this summer.

Officials with first-hand knowledge of the report said that creating detailed chronologies of individual cases had revealed the extent to which the CIA had exaggerated both the value of information allegedly extracted by torture, and the importance of detainees themselves.

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Among key examples was that of Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian who was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and water-boarded 83 times by the CIA after disappearing into black jails, before re-emerging at Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

An official who has reviewed the report told The Washington Post that the CIA had wrongly claimed that information obtained from Zubaydah during a regular FBI interrogation in a Pakistani hospital had been obtained as a result of “enhanced interrogation”.

“The CIA conflated what was gotten when, which led them to misrepresent the effectiveness of the programme,” the official said, adding that the committee had uncovered persistent mis-statements of this kind by senior CIA officials.

The value of CIA detainees was also exaggerated, the officials added, citing Zubaydah as an example of a detainee initially described as a top Al Qa’eda operative but later admitted to be a low-level facilitator.

The CIA is also accused of over-selling the role of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, another so-called “high-value” detainee who is accused in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen and is currently being tried at a military crimes tribunal trial at Guantanamo Bay.

The report is also expected to provide graphic detail of CIA interrogations to support the committee’s broad conclusion that Bush administration’s use of torture after September 11 2001 was a disastrous misjudgment.

“The creation of long-term, clandestine ‘black sites’ and the use of so-called ‘enhanced-interrogation techniques’ were terrible mistakes,” Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s Democrat chair, said in a December 2012 statement announcing the approval of the still-secret report.

The publication has been long-awaited by civil rights groups, lawyers and experts who contend that the US public has never been fully acquainted with the facts of CIA torture. A December 2012 YouGov survey found that 47 per cent of Americans still believed torture was “always or sometimes justified”.

“This Senate report is incredibly important. It is the first authoritative, factual account of what really happened,” Alberto Mora, the former top lawyer for the US Navy who argued against the Bush administration’s legal re-definition of torture, said in an interview with The Telegraph.

“It will put an end to the abominable euphemism ‘enhanced interrogations’ and it will help to end the myth which has been absorbed by the American public and propagated by Dick Cheney and others that torture was legal, effective and necessary. It wasn’t.”

 

First anniversary of a rumorous lie

Even against all inconsistencies of Obama’s repetitive speeches, many people still believe in Bin Laden’s death one year ago.

Coincidently, a lot of brand new reports on allegely current terrorist plans was disclosed under the guise of a celebration at that anniversary.

Of course, all info disclosed was obtained through torture but who has been tortured to reveal such secret plans other than Bin Laden ???

According to the repulsive master torturer Jose Rodriguez Jr, a former director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service, Bin Laden’s death woud not have been successful without the methods employed.

As a way to get details, please link on:

http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/05/01/anniversary-bin-ladens-death-heated-debate-about-torture-use?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed2Fgods-politics+27s+Politics+Blog)

The Liars

Almost a year ago, I did not believe in the scene you can view right now.

I posted “Bin Laden is not dead”

Believe it or not.

Bush, the butcher

Dear readers,

Please carefully read the text below. It has been borrowed from IPS – Inter Press Service

It unfortunately shows, things have not changed in Obama’s administration.

WE’LL KEEP AN EYE ON ALL OF THEM !!!

Published on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Inter Press Service

Calls Mount to Investigate Bush Era Officials for Torture

by Naseema Noor

WASHINGTON – Senior officials under the former George W. Bush administration knowingly authorized the torture of terrorism suspects held under United States custody, a Human Right Watch (HRW) report released here Tuesday revealed.Titled “Getting Away with Torture”, the 107-page report presents a plethora of evidence that HRW says warrants criminal investigations against former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet and Bush himself, among others. (photo: pantagrapher)

Titled “Getting Away with Torture”, the 107-page report presents a plethora of evidence that HRW says warrants criminal investigations against former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet and Bush himself, among others.

Newly de-classified memos, transcriptions of congressional hearings, and other sources indicate that Bush officials authorized the use of interrogation techniques almost universally considered torture – such as waterboarding – as well as the operation of covert CIA prisons abroad and the rendition of detainees to other countries where they were subsequently tortured.

HRW also criticized the United States under the current Barack Obama administration for failing to meets it obligations under the United Nations Convention Against Torture to investigate acts of torture and other inhumane treatment.

“President Obama has defended the decision not to prosecute officials in his predecessor’s administration by arguing that the country needs ‘to look forward, not backward,'” said HRW executive director Kenneth Roth. “[He] has treated torture as an unfortunate policy choice rather than a crime.”

To date, both the Bush and Obama administrations have successfully prevented courts from reviewing the merits of torture allegations in civil lawsuits by arguing that the cases involve sensitive information, which, if revealed, might endanger national security.

Last year, Bush defended the use of waterboarding on the grounds that the Justice Department deemed it legal. In 2002, lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel had drafted memos approving the legality of a list of abusive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. However, HRW documents evidence that shows senior administration officials pressured the politically-appointed lawyers to write these legal justifications.

“Senior Bush officials shouldn’t be allowed to shape and hand-pick legal advice and then hide behind it as if were autonomously delivered,” Roth said.

HRW further recommends that Congress establish an independent, nonpartisan commission to examine the mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and compensate victims of torture, as required by the U.N. Convention Against Torture.

“Without [a commission], torture very much remains within the toolbox of accepted policies. People are not going to back away from it until there is accountability,” Karen Greenberg, executive director of New York University’s Center on Law and Security and author of “The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days”, told IPS.

In 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appointed a special prosecutor to investigate detainee abuse, but limited the mandate to only “unauthorized” acts, which effectively excluded violations like waterboarding and forcing prisoners to maintain stress positions that were approved by the Bush administration.

But on Jun. 30 of this year, the Justice Department announced that it would continue probing only two of nearly 100 allegations of torture. The open cases involve the deaths of two men – Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi, and Gul Rahman, an Afghan – in CIA custody.

Human and civil rights group criticized the narrow scope of the torture investigations, while HRW said they failed to address the systematic character of the abuses.

“The U.S. government’s pattern of abuse across several countries did not result from acts of individuals who broke the rules,” Roth said. “It resulted from decisions made by senior U.S. officials to bend, ignore, or cast aside the rules.” If the U.S. does not pursue criminal investigations, HRW is urging other countries to exercise universal jurisdiction under international law and prosecute the aforementioned officials.

A number of former detainees have already taken this step by filing criminal complaints in courts outside of the U.S.

In February 2011, alleged victims of torture living in Switzerland planned to file a suit against Bush, causing him to cancel his trip there.

Another investigation is underway in Spain, where the Center for Constitutional Rights and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights requested a subpoena for a former commander of the Abu Ghraib prison to explain his role in the alleged torture of four detainees.

Washington’s failure to investigate its own citizens for abuses like torture ultimately undercuts its efforts to hold other governments accountable for human rights violations, according to HRW.

“The U.S. is right to call for justice when serious international crimes are committed in places like Darfur, Libya, and Sri Lanka, but there should be no double standards,” Roth said.

“When the U.S. government shields its own officials from investigation and prosecution, it makes it easier for others to dismiss global efforts to bring violators of serious crimes to justice,” he added.

Failing to prosecute ultimately sends the message that “if you are powerful, you can get away with even torture,” Greenberg said.

Copyright © 2011 IPS-Inter Press Service

 

Brazil: Former Chief of staff Palocci finally put on hold.

 After a series of influence-peddling leads as detailed in previous posts, scandal-prone incumbent Palocci was fired by the second time, following late president Lula’s similar act in 2006. He is supposed to soon take up a new position in the current  coalition, since that’s considered about normal.

“The resignation can’t be an excuse to halt the investigations,” said opposition leader Duarte Nogueira

According to a federal government’s common-practice (Favors Exchange Policy), he is being replaced by Sen. Gleisi Hoffmann, 45, wife of Development minister Paulo Bernardo.

Mrs. Hoffmann has been elected for senate, where played her role as aggressive and hostile as PT’s (Workers party)  shi’ite (*) -like behavior  following her  predecessor Ms Ideli Salvati, who was granted a better position, as a sign of the above mentioned policy.

(*) Shī’ite, Collective Shīah, member of the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, distinguished from the majority sunnites.

New York City, The Big Apple… Brasilia, The Big Pizza.

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?  Why are Brazilian federal government heads so worried about the official hearing of their messed up minister Palocci? 

It seems everybody is walking on marbles! What do they  intend to hide?

 

 

Rumorous scandal in Brazil makes federal government members try to shield their most important minister from corruption charges.

Major source: Reuters.                                                                       May 23, 2011

Antonio Palocci, has become the chief of staff in the incoming government  of  Brazil’s President-elect  Dilma Rousseff, a  position she  herself  held under  outgoing president Lula.

As reported by a nationwide business magazine, Mr. Palocci  had an unexplainable increase  in his personal assets of  20-fold in the short spell of four years.

Despite Nation’s press and opposition parties’ congressmen   attempts to both formally and publicly hear  the minister, government  base allies have adopted a series of  unethical ploys to stop it. As alleged by President Dilma,  there is a smear campaign against Palocci  so that  government party members are required to shed the minister through ideological cants.

Last  friday, journalist  Franklin Martins, an ex-guerrilla, was called at the  Alvorada Palace, to help develop  a communication strategy aiming at helping Palocci, as everybody seems to be really walking on eggshells.

Mr. Palocci was once tipped as a possible successor to Lula but was forced to resign as finance minister in 2006 over an ethics scandal,  remaining  at the background, as Dilma Rousseff’s  campaign adviser and manager in 2010. He had played a similar role in Lula’s 2002 campaign.  

According to reliable Brazilian newspapers, Palocci’s net income reached R$ 20 million in 2010, far above    the  R$ 160,000.00 yearly-earnings, as declared in his income statement  after  resigning  in 2006. Coincidently, R$ 10 million earnings were reported within  two months after Dilma’s election.

 Opposition parties allege it would  certainly  show signs of influence-peddling practicing .

Palocci, a radical Trotskyite in his youth, helped found the left-wing workers party (PT) in 1980. He has served as  mayor of the city of Ribeirao Preto (1993-1996),  where he was accused of profiting from a kickback and bribery scheme  by his assessor Tadeu Buratti. Mr.Buratti, who was granted  a leniency program, said Palocci used to receive R$ 50,000.00  on a monthly fixed basis.

In 2000, Palocci   won municipal elections and again became the mayor of the city of Ribeirao Preto  until 2003, when was picked up to be Lula’s Minister.

In September  2006, the Brazilian Federal Police  concluded that Palocci had been involved in a revenge-plot against his former home caretaker, Francenildo Santos Costa, who testified Palocci (called: chief)  often visited (20 to 30 times) a rented manor house  in Brasilia driving a silver Peugeot with darkened glasses .

The  house was  mainly used for  after-hour parties with lobbists and prostitutes, and according to  Francenildo, many travel cases and money packs were distributed among participants.  

According to investigation reports, as an attempt to stop the caretaker, Palocci has asked some assessors to illegally breach Francenildo’s bank and tax secrecies so as to supposedly find some evidence of extra funding. A kind of conspiracy to commit racketeering.(*)

(*) Racketeering (USA) is a pattern of criminal behavior in which participants collaborate to use the same methods to commit multiple crimes. It is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $375,000 fine.

The position currently held by Palocci has been at the center of a string of scandals since 2005 when Jose Dirceu, the chief of staff of Dilma Rousseff’s predecessor, President Lula, had to quit over his role in a cash-for-votes scheme. His political rights were also suspended for a 10-year period.

President Lula’s last chief of staff, Erenice Guerra, had to quit in the middle of the last year, amid accusations of influence-peddling.  

 Things now seem to be going to an end, as Prosecutor – General Roberto  Gurgel asked  Minister Antonio Palocci to provide further details on contracts he won as a consultant before taking office in January 2011.

He has up to 15 days to elaborate on the contracts the name of his clients and a reason behind a 20-fold jump in consultancy revenue over the past five years. Let’s wait…

Afghan detainee is killed under torture at Guantanamo.

 Inayatullah, 37, supposedly a member of the Afghanian Al Qaeda, was killed under torture known as “waterboard” at the Guantanamo torture center where he was  a resident since 2007.

Such practice is considered by C.I.A. officials as a light technique and does not harm the human being while alive.

“An investigation is under way to determine the exact circumstances of what happened,” said Navy Commander Tamsen Reese, a master torturer.

“The guards found the detainee unresponsive and not breathing,”  Reese cynically reported.

“After extensive lifesaving measures had been exhausted, the detainee was pronounced dead by a physician.”

That is an example of Obama’s human rights policy.

This post deals with the freshest neo-nazi’s up-to-date vocabulary changes now available at the White House.

According to their specific convenience, there are  brand new terms for the word “torture”, though, as they claim, do not mean the same at all.

“Enhanced Interrogation” is the slang currently used by John Mc Cain, Dianne Feinstein and  C.I.A.’s master torturer, Leon Panetta, to justify how info from Hassan Ghul was obtained  leading  navy seals to Bin Laden’s den kidnap. 

Such new words have once been brought about by the past Condoleeza Rice, another member of this new breed of intellectuals.

Missing in action. Osama Bin Laden is not dead!

Although controversial info has been exhaustively launched into international press as of Osama Bin Laden’s death , not even a photo or reliable statement has been released by american officials so as to make his disappearance look convincing to million of skeptical people.

The military task force would never do anything without previous scheduled actions plan.

Many sources claim that Bin Laden is being kept safe at a secret place, or better, a blacksite, where he is most probably being tortured.

Future shall blow away all those smoke screens and lame excuses    actually addessed.

In the mean time, president Obama is reaping the benefits as a growing  political prestige, among U.S. population.

In the long run, he is in charge of the burden of prone.