We do not know how many people were jailed and interrogated in this system. Estimates range from 100 to 150 to "several thousand renditions of terror suspects," the judiciary report says. We don’t know how a program of "rendition" that was occasionally used in prior administrations to deliver a suspect to face prosecution in a country where he was wanted on criminal charges metastasized into a global sweep of those who were detained for interrogation. We do not know what happened to "ghost" detainees held by the U.S. in Iraqi prisons -- prisoners who were never registered or identified and, for all we know, disappeared.
We do not know the full extent of the warrantless wiretapping of Americans that continues, in some form, to this day.
Sweeping this all aside in the interest of moving on isn’t a mark of how mature our political system is. It is an indictment of it.
Anti-Torture Protestors Arrested at White House
Arthur Delany, HuffPo
Sixty-one anti-torture protesters were arrested outside the White House on Thursday in a planned act of mass civil disobedience at the end of an event organized by Witness Against Torture and Amnesty International.
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