{"id":7385,"date":"2014-12-09T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2014-12-09T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:51:06","slug":"torture-report-to-cause-some-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7385","title":{"rendered":"Torture report to cause some grief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A controversial report is due out Tuesday. It’s going to raise some hackles here and likely over there — meaning the Middle East.<\/p>\n

It’s going to detail how the U.S. government used “enhanced interrogation” techniques on terror suspects immediately after the 9\/11 attacks. It’s also likely to report that military officials gained little, if any, actionable intelligence from the techniques that included sleep deprivation and waterboarding.<\/p>\n

How will the Middle East react? Probably badly, some folks fear.<\/p>\n

Well, let them gnash their teeth.<\/p>\n

I’ll await the release of the report before commenting in too much detail on it.<\/p>\n

However, I do want to refer to comments made by a U.S. senator who knows a thing or two about torture.<\/p>\n

Republican John McCain was held captive in North Vietnam for more than five years during the Vietnam War. The enemy subjected him to unimaginable pain through torture.<\/p>\n

McCain once said the United States shouldn’t torture captives. He knows of what he speaks. He also believes the U.S. employed torture techniques on al-Qaeda terror suspects.<\/p>\n

He condemned the action.<\/p>\n

The world awaits this CIA report.<\/p>\n

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