US-Senator Graham: Americas enemies are 'bastards'
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has defended the CIA’s torture program, describing enemies of the United States as “bastards.”
“We have a lot going for us that our enemy doesn’t. We’re actually good people, and they’re bastards,” Graham told Fox News on Tuesday.
The remarks were made hours after the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report detailing torture tactics used by the CIA during the Bush administration.
Based on the report, the CIA employed brutal techniques like waterboarding, physical abuse and threats of sexual abuse to interrogate the so-called terror suspects after the September 11, 2001 attacks. ....... http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/10/389642/sen-graham-us-enemies-are...
“The techniques employed after Sept. 11 were in response to fear of another attack. When you roll up some of these guys, you’re very anxious to get out of them whatever you can to prevent the next attack. I understand why people did this,” Senator Graham said.
He added that it would be “pretty absurd” to limit the program and urged that “some latitude” be allowed in questioning detainees.
The UN called for prosecution of those involved in torture committed by the CIA.
Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, said the report confirmed what the international community has long believed -- that there was a clear policy orchestrated at a high level within the Bush administration, which allowed to commit systematic crimes and gross violations of international human rights law.
Meanwhile, the US Justice Department has rejected pursuing charges against anyone involved in the CIA’s torture program. AGB/AGB http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/10/389642/sen-graham-us-enemies-are...
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