Porter Goss' CIA

CIA Director Porter J. Goss insists that his agency is innocent of torturing the prisoners it is holding in secret detention centers around the world. "This agency does not torture," he said in an interview this week with USA Today. "We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture."

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But some of the people who work for him provided a description of six "enhanced interrogation techniques" to ABC News, because they believe "the public needs to know the direction their agency has chosen," the network reported.

the wapo article goes on to describe these "enhanced interrogation techniques" which i won't repeat here... (sorry, but i'm having trouble gagging down the euphemism of "enhanced interrogation techniques...") and here's the bogus justification...

[T]he administration also claims a technical loophole: Since the Constitution doesn't apply to foreigners outside the United States, the administration argues that by the Senate's standard, the CIA can use cruel and inhuman methods on foreign detainees held abroad.

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No one beyond Mr. Goss and a handful of senior officials accepts that spin: not the agencies' professionals, or 90 members of the Senate, or the rest of the democratic world.

why is my country turning itself into a repressive regime, hated, feared and looked down upon not only by the rest of the world but by its own citizens...?

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