Since 2004 They Knew Torture Did Not Work

A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House this week.

On Monday, the Washington Post reported the impending release of a May 7, 2004 IG report that, the paper added, would show that in several circumstances the techniques used to interrogate terrorist suspects "appeared to violate the U.N. Convention Against Torture" and did not produce desired results. It is difficult, the report will conclude, "to determine conclusively whether interrogations have provided information critical to interdicting specific imminent attacks."

This information is from 2004 yet Dick Cheney, the most evil guy in the room, has been going on for years about how torture was needed, almost justified.

Now with the benefit of declassifying the reports, the more we know about these programs, the more it seems they were not effective. Add the enormous WMD charade Cheney has pushed from even before 9/11, and all the subsequent bogus connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda and The Dick is batting 0.000.

This is the kicker: now that we know the Bush Administration tortured and how waterboarding compromised American values, we now are learning that, from as far back as 2004, that particular act of torture was deemed useless:

Medical personnel at the detention facility protested the use of the waterboard in that form, stressing that "there was no a priori reason to believe that applying the waterboard with the frequency and intensity with which it was used by the psychologist/interrogators was either efficacious or medically safe.'"

What this shows us is that the internal reports and checks and balances were all there, blaring blinking red lights, warning the Bush Administration of all these illegal and ineffective activities. Bush and Cheney chose to ignore them and endlessly promote the exact opposite position. They lived the past 4+ years knowing this was illegal, pushing their flawed agenda. Malice personified.

I say let the indictments flow. Cheney, since he has left office, is practically begging to be brought in. Every TV appearance can be used as evidence. A true sociopath.

Source: HuffPo