"France ‘Suppressed Reports of Gruesome Torture’ at Bataclan Massacre"

Heat Street:   A French government committee has heard testimony, suppressed by the French government at the time and not published online until this week, that the killers in the Bataclan appear to have tortured their victims on the second floor of the club.

The chief police witness in Parliament testified that on the night of the attacks, an investigating officer, tears streaming down his face, rushed out of the Bataclan and vomited in front of him just after seeing the disfigured bodies.

The 14-hour testimony about the November attacks took place March 21st.

According to this testimony, Wahhabist killers reportedly gouged out eyes, castrated victims, and shoved their testicles in their mouths. They may also have disemboweled some poor souls. Women were reportedly stabbed in the genitals – and the torture was, victims told police, filmed for Daesh or Islamic State propaganda. For that reason, medics did not release the bodies of torture victims to the families, investigators said.

Maybe Newt is right.

You're in the Army Now!

Everybody  and his brother is shitting their pants about what Trump said about the military. The question arose at the debate was what would Trump do if the military refused his orders to torture terrorists or kill the families of the terrorists. Of course Trump didn't realize the trap they were setting for him. You see he doesn't see waterboarding as torture or even other means that are harsher as a problem for terrorists. He sees it as just what they deserve. Also I guess killing a whole family with a drone attack is no biggie when Obama does it but if a Republican does it then it is a war crime. I get it.

What freaked everyone out was Trump's response. “They won’t refuse. They’re not going to refuse me,” he said. “If I say do it, they’re going to do it.”

"Obama, Bush teams battle over torture report"

"What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it," former vice president Dick Cheney told The New York Times. "I think that's all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program."

 

Here is one of the Justice Department lawyers that wrote the so called "torture" memos.

Obama: After 9/11 ‘we tortured some folks’

US president Barack Obama said the CIA “tortured some folks” after the September 11th, 2001, attacks, and that the White House had handed over to Congress a report about an investigation into “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

“We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values,” Mr Obama told a White House news conference.

“It’s important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job that those folks had,” he said. “A lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots.”

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