Nobel Peace Prize Winners to Obama: Release the CIA Torture Report

[99th_Monkey]

Nobel Peace Prize Winners Urge Obama To Release CIA Torture Report
The Huffington Post * By Alana Horowitz * October 26, 2014

Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners penned an open letter to President Barack Obama urging his administration to release a U.S. Senate report on the CIA's use of torture.

In the letter, released Sunday night on TheCommunity.com, the laureates asked for "full disclosure to the American people of the extent and use of torture and rendition by American soldiers, operatives, and contractors, as well as the authorization of torture and rendition by American officials." The letter also pushed for a clear plan for the closing of Guantanamo Bay and other international sites where the U.S. has engaged in torture.

The letter was signed by José Ramos-Horta, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, F.W. De Klerk, Leymah Gbowee, Muhammad Yunus, John Hume, Bishop Carlos X. Belo, Betty Williams, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Jody Williams, Oscar Arias Sanchez and Mohammad ElBaradei The laureates spoke out sharply against any use of torture, but said that the U.S.' tactics were particularly troubling.

"In recent decades, by accepting the flagrant use of torture and other violations of international law in the name of combating terrorism, American leaders have eroded the very freedoms and rights that generations of their young gave their lives to defend," they said. "They have again set an example that will be followed by others; only now, it is one that will be used to justify the use of torture by regimes around the world, including against American soldiers in foreign lands. In losing their way, they have made us all vulnerable."

The letter urged Obama to better adhere to the policies set forth by the UN Convention against Torture and the Geneva Convention.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/26/nobel-peace-prize-letter-cia-torture-obama_n_6051914.html

[woo me with science]

1. K&R

[ZombieHorde]

13. I love your signiture line. nt

[liberal_at_heart]

2. K&R

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. "A lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots." Obama

[99th_Monkey]

4. "We tortured some folks" nt

[Rex]

9. Yeah that made me throw up a little bit in my mouth when I first heard it.

One day, a president will come along and refuse to toe the line. Last guy that did that, was assassinated.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Was Henry Kissinger one of the signers?

The Nobel Peace Prize will always have a large smudge on it - how could that war criminal ever have been considered, let alone awarded?

[99th_Monkey]

6. Apparently Henry is giving Obama a thumbs-up for torturing. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. Do the right thing, Mr. President.

[DeSwiss]

8. I don't need anymore reports......

...I've seen too much already.

[99th_Monkey]

11. Sunlight. Disinfectant.

But I do get your drift.

[woo me with science]

14. +1

[QC]

10. They just want Sarah Palin. n/t

[bigwillq]

12. K and R

[Octafish]

15. One late Nobel laureate for literature chimes in on WHAT IT ALL REALLY MEANS.