Thursday, April 30, 2009
Boeing subsidiary on further torture allegations
Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan are accused of conspiring with the CIA in their rendition and torture.
Genital electrocution and mutilation, broken bones, psychosis-inducing sleep deprivation, and the harrowing screams of women and children blasted into solitary and seemingly unending darkness. The Court, citing ample evidence, made a point of rebuking for the record the government’s bureaucratic instinct of burying information that is shameful, rather than truly threatening to national security. Is anyone really surprised?
Perhaps the executives of Jeppesen, who once bragged to a group of astonished new employees that they "did all the torture flights," will exhibit rather less pride of ownership of their role in this sorry affair, as the legal tide turns against them. Regardless, this decision by the 9th Circuit is a direct challenge to the apologists of overarching executive authority, and a triumph of reason over obfuscation.
IMO: Torture is illegal. There are no circumstances whatsoever that make it legal. It doesn't matter if the intelligence you were after saved lives, it's still illegal. Both US and International law admit no exceptions to the ban, no matter what the particular circumstances might be.
Genital electrocution and mutilation, broken bones, psychosis-inducing sleep deprivation, and the harrowing screams of women and children blasted into solitary and seemingly unending darkness. The Court, citing ample evidence, made a point of rebuking for the record the government’s bureaucratic instinct of burying information that is shameful, rather than truly threatening to national security. Is anyone really surprised?
Perhaps the executives of Jeppesen, who once bragged to a group of astonished new employees that they "did all the torture flights," will exhibit rather less pride of ownership of their role in this sorry affair, as the legal tide turns against them. Regardless, this decision by the 9th Circuit is a direct challenge to the apologists of overarching executive authority, and a triumph of reason over obfuscation.
IMO: Torture is illegal. There are no circumstances whatsoever that make it legal. It doesn't matter if the intelligence you were after saved lives, it's still illegal. Both US and International law admit no exceptions to the ban, no matter what the particular circumstances might be.
# posted by uv : 8:01 PM
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