I think that President Obama just like President Bush has made a conscious decision to allow the torturers, to allow the people who conceived of the tortures and implemented the policy, to allow the people who destroyed the evidence of the torture and the attorneys who used specious legal analysis to approve of the torture to walk free. And I think that once this decision has been made – that’s the end of it and nobody will be prosecuted, except me.
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John Kiriakou, former CIA agent & whistleblower who is awaiting a summons to begin his two & a half year prison sentence for revealing the name of an undercover agent. Kiriakou was one of the first to confirm Washington’s waterboarding tactic & other torture methods.
President Obama has expanded the war on whistleblowers, charging seven people under the Espionage Act of 1917 (all have been dismissed). All previous US presidents have only charged three people.
(via thepeoplesrecord)
There’s nothing you have that’s so precious and so great that justifies your going in there and saturation bombing with B-52’s, and burning villages and killing men, women and children at the rate that you’re doing. Spraying that country with dioxide and agent orange, destroying its ecology, wreaking that kind of havoc and murder and slaughter. There’s nothing you have, no refrigerators, no General Motors cars, no great free enterprise system that you have that’s so magnificent that justifies your doing that to those people.
— Michael Parenti on Vietnam (via theyoungradical)
