CIA’s Executive Director under Bush admits torture
Top CIA officials were hit with a bombshell from one of their own on Monday when CIA executive director, Alvin Bernard Krongard—number three in the agency from 2001-2004—admitted that the agency approved interrogation techniques that amounted to torture. While other high officials have hinted at violations of this kind, this is the first admission of torture from someone directly involved with the program.
We were told by legal authorities that we could torture people…Well, let’s put it this way, it is meant to make him as uncomfortable as possible…So I assume for, without getting into semantics, that’s torture. I’m comfortable with saying that.
The rebuttal the CIA always gives to allegations of torture, as quoted by BBC News, is so damn cute, “…the interrogation methods did not amount to torture because they had been legally approved by the White House at the time.”
“Dad said I could do it!”
These officials, including the president, should be brought to trial in a court of law.