Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses George W. Bush’s admission that he emphatically approved of waterboarding — with the unsupported caveat that it saved lives, the post-9/11 US torture regime designed to extract ‘evidence’ linking al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, tracing DHS orange alerts back to false confessions of torture victims, how Congress essentially jails scheduled-for-release Guantanamo prisoners for 2 weeks while vetting their releases, the abolition of accountable and limited government thanks to Obama’s refusal to ‘look back’ at the Bush administration’s lawlessness and how the British got their own Abu Ghraib-type scandal.
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