It is well-documented that since
2001, American authorities have used overseas black sites and foreign data
collection as legal gray areas for things that would clearly be illegal if done
to US citizens on American soil. This practice increases the chances that
officials, who violate the law or even break its letter outright, will never be
prosecuted in an American court. No longer willing to let the United States
hide behind national security, the world is beginning to unearth our crimes and
try them in open courts.
I am personally repulsed by the
information I obtained from the three articles I have read about the SIA’s
“Black Sites.” How could something like this be kept so awfully quiet? There is
no way that our government has not been aware. Such a widespread global
operation requires not only the participation of our government, but other
governments as well, and that is where human rights advocates may find new
inroads. Foreign leaders and international courts have increasingly begun to
step in to inform the public and hold the United States accountable for abuses.
But this is AFTER these foreign leaders had played dumb for over 12 years.
Foreign leaders knew that these “Black Sites” were located in their countries
and they still kept quiet.
As if
the torture tactics were not enough to make American citizens cower, imaging
the disgust that they felt that $80 Million of their tax money went to funding
just two men to come up with more methods of horrific torture.
Personally
I believe that this torture is not about finding information, it is in some
twisted way revenge. These prisoners are interrogated to the point that they
could no longer communicate, or that they would give false information to stop
the torture. They call these prisoners “medium value suspects,” I cannot even
imagine what they do to the ones of high value. They claim that these people
are terrorist suspects and could be involved for the killing of Americans, but
if we kill and torture them what makes us any less forms of terrorists?
Where is our humanity? I am in fear of what the future holds for America’s
reputation.
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