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Trump’s Pro Torture-Friendly Administration
Appointments
set off alarm
bells
M edea b enjaMin
It should come as
no surprise to anyone
that Donald Trump is
pro-torture. He said
on the campaign trail
he’d approve water-
boarding “in a heart-
beat,” plus “a hell of a lot worse.”
He added: “Only a stupid per-
son would say it doesn’t work.”
There are certainly a lot of stu-
pid people then, because everyone
from interrogators to researchers
have repeatedly concluded that
torture doesn’t work. People will
say whatever you want them to
say to make the pain stop, mak-
ing torture not only inhumane but
also bad for intelligence.
A 2009 Senate Armed Ser-
vices Committee review con-
cluded that torture “damaged
our ability to collect accurate in-
telligence that could save lives,
strengthened the hand of our
enemies, and compromised our
moral authority.” That’s why the
Senate voted in 2015 to turn the
presidential ban on torture into
by
official law.
To his credit, Trump did wa-
ter down his original support for
torture, allowing Defense Sec-
retary James Mattis —
who opposes torture —
to override him.
But if the Trump ad-
ministration is now op-
posed to torture, why
are they nominating the
architects of America’s
torture fiasco to key
posts?
Take Steven Bradbury, nomi-
nated to be general counsel for
the Transportation Department.
Bradbury is infamous for writ-
ing the legal memos authorizing
CIA torture at the Bush Justice
Department.
Bradbury’s confirmation was
placed on hold by Senator Tam-
my Duckworth, an Iraq veter-
an who lost her legs in the war.
“The actions you helped justify
put our troops in harm’s way, put
our diplomats deployed overseas
in harm’s way, and you compro-
mised our nation’s very values,”
she said angrily at his confirma-
tion hearing.
Or what about Donald
Trump’s nominee to head the
FBI, Christopher Wray?
Wray was at the Justice Depart-
ment when attorney John Yoo and
others were drafting their torture
memos. Wray knew about de-
tainee abuse and did not, as head
of the criminal division, bring
charges against any of the Bush
administration torturers — except
for one low-level CIA contractor
who beat a prisoner to death.
A third person connected to
torture is Gina Haspel, who was
appointed deputy director of the
CIA. Haspel ran a “black site”
prison in Thailand where sus-
pects were waterboarded — and
then helped destroy video of the
interrogations.
The Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee meticulously documented
the sordid U.S. record of torture
under the Bush administration in
a 6,770-page report. But the pub-
lic hasn’t been able to read it —
only the executive summary has
been released.
Yet this isn’t just an exer-
cise in history. In June, Human
Rights Watch and the Associat-
ed Press published explosive re-
ports revealing a secret network
of prisons in southern Yemen
run by U.S.-allied United Arab
Emirates and Yemeni forces.
The reports reveal horrific
practices in which prisoners, in-
cluding children, have been arbi-
trarily detained, forcibly disap-
peared, sexually assaulted, and
tortured. One torture method,
known as the “grill,” had victims
tied to a spit like a roast and spun
in a circle of fire.
Reports indicate that the U.S.
military knew about the torture,
received transcripts of the inter-
rogations conducted by Yemeni
interrogators, and interrogated
several detainees themselves.
According to one Yemeni securi-
ty officer, American forces were
only yards away from a facility
where torture took place.
Senators John McCain and
Jack Reed immediately ex-
pressed outrage, calling on the
Trump administration to inves-
tigate the allegations. But the
reaction of the White House to
these revolting reports is telling:
radio silence.
Trump’s refusal to publicly
condemn these secret prisons,
together with the appointments
of people who played a role in
George W. Bush’s torture pro-
gram, should set off alarm bells.
Only stupid people say torture
works, and one of them is sitting
in the White House.
Medea Benjamin is co-found-
er of CODEPINK for Peace.
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