I often get pertinent news items in a very timely way from this source. I then click on the items quite often to see where they originated, as not all sources are reliable. I like to see several reports. I also check Google news to see if the item was carried there. Many reports either arrive late in the mainstream media, or are buried, or never arrive at all. Better late than never often means never or not much as far as having an impact on the general public that never hears about it.
An example today is a report of recent origin concerning the CIA torture chambers in various European countries. One would think that this would be major news, and maybe it will be later today. We shall see if Google and others pick it up. (The Afghan use of stretching racks is coming out.) An item dated Sept. 6 in a Sri Lankan site for its major newspaper (Daily News) reports on comments of the Council of Europe’s rights commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg. He says “In attempting to combat crimes attributed to terrorists, countless further crimes have been committed in the course of the US-led global war on terror. Many of those crimes have been carefully and deliberately covered up.”
This may be old news because the article also says “A 2007 Council of Europe (COE) report by Dick Marty, Swiss MP, accused Britain and 13 other European governments of allowing the CIA to run secret detention centres, of turning a blind eye to torture and the illegal abductions of terror suspects.”
But here we have a man with some official status making important charges that should prompt action. Government (and CIA) officials who did all this should be named, questioned in public under oath, and possibly prosecuted for violations of existing laws. At present, there is a coverup. There should be many Watergate-type investigations by the press and by elected officials who pin down those others in government who brought about the kidnappings and torture. Many elements of the press do nothing more than employ the official term “renditions” for these kidnappings that deny people rights, torture them, and keep them in nameless prisons overseas.
The CIA is under the control of the U.S. presidents. Based on what has dribbled out so far, this should be one charge of many in Obama’s bill of impeachment. Earlier presidents and other accountable government officials should be named too and tried in absentia if necessary, merely to make the facts known about the dirty doings of the U.S. government.
These guys make Nixon look like an honest man. What I find most disgusting about them is the bullshit they dish out constantly that attempts to justify their crimes. They are busy constructing lawyerly justifications for their crimes. They justify executive orders that have no justifications. They constantly are creating myths and building up myths about their power and the necessity to use that power against threats. They are constantly gulling the public.
