Friday, July 20, 2007
Orwell Lives On
In the Chicago Tribune: "In the last five years, fewer than 100 people have been detained in the CIA's black prisons and less than half of those detainees "have ever required any sort of enhanced interrogation measures," CIA Director Gen. Michael V. Hayden said in a statement to employees yesterday."
Now is that scary or what? Take all the politically correct modifiers out of that statement and you get that; just the CIA alone, in the past five years only, and only in their "black prisons," has openly admitted to torturing nearly 50 people.
That leaves out the military, the justice department, contractors, federal and local law enforcement and just about anyone else. It also leaves out white prisons (and what pray-tell is the official definition of "black prison" anyway), regular prisons, farmer's fields, military bases, ships at sea and aircraft in the air.
I know I'm going to sleep a lot sounder tonight knowing my government is keeping me safe.
Labels: freedom, government
