Taking Responsibility for Torture

"In one crucial respect, however, the Senate report falls short. By putting the blame for the program exclusively on the C.I.A., it fails to acknowledge that responsibility for it does not stop there. President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, among others, all signed off on the authorization to use enhanced interrogation techniques"….By David Cole

An interior view of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, at the C.I.A. headquarters, in Langley, Virginia. Photograph By Christopher Morris/VII

Floor Statement By Senator John McCain On Senate Intelligence Committee Report On CIA Interrogation Methods

"Most of all, I know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies, our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights, which are protected by international conventions the U.S. not only joined, but for the most part authored." Senator John McCain

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