Will a UN investigation of overseas CIA detention facilities confirm torture was used?

COULD WE PLEASE FIX THE SPELLING???
"there" and "secrete" won't do here.
I know I should go get a life and quit obsessing over this, but, we are rapidly losing the ability to communicate effectively in the age of text message English...

tuff - hope u doughn't reed my commnts..ewe mght bloow a fusse. :O)

Spelling errors now fixed. Curios, in future please spell check your markets before posting as spelling errors are often included in your market questions.

Regards,
Ryan

English is English i suggest you all use it and for your information i always use a spell checker
and Ryan i am still waiting on a market that i flagged ,on who holds the most debt china or japan ,
instead of being rude to be which is your want see to the job we entrust you with!!!!.

in this there are two spelling errors but not in English/English/

and to diesel we spell (tuff)in the contexts you are using it as tufe' or in old English tuffe,

tuff,diesel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuff

and more mistakes

ewe mght bloow a fusse

Monday, March 16, 2009; Page A01

The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.

The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA "black site" prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.

The findings were based on an investigation by ICRC officials, who were granted exclusive access to the CIA's "high-value" detainees after they were transferred in 2006 to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The 14 detainees, who had been kept in isolation in CIA prisons overseas, gave remarkably uniform accounts of abuse that included beatings, sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures and, in some cases, waterboarding, or simulating drowning.

At least five copies of the report were shared with the CIA and top White House officials in 2007 but barred from public release by ICRC guidelines intended to preserve the humanitarian group's strict policy of neutrality in conflicts. A copy of the report was obtained by Mark Danner, a journalism professor and author who published extensive excerpts in the April 9 edition of the New York Review of Books, released yesterday. He did not say how he obtained
please note the date when this was released,
you are playing with the wording if they knew of this which of course they (the un) would have , also been aware .
please void the whole thing,
thanks

for those that cannotread/or are too lazy.
Update 1 hours and 2 minutes ago


WASHINGTON, Mar 17 - A leaked Red Cross report on CIA "torture" of detainees offers fresh ammunition to demands that officials from the Bush administration be prosecuted for their conduct, rights groups have revealed.

President Barack Obama has so far sidestepped calls from some fellow Democrats and from civil liberties activists to go after officials from the previous administration over torture allegations, saying he wants to "look forward."

But his administration will face renewed pressure to take action following the leaking of the internal document from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which describes abuse in harrowing detail.

"The more these kind of reports come out, the more pressure it puts on the government to do something," said Sarah Mendelson, director of the human rights and security initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Providing the most detailed account yet of the treatment of detainees under former president George W. Bush, the 2007 report by the ICRC describes beatings, sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures and "suffocation by water," of 14 suspected Al-Qaeda members.

The abuse described by the detainees, including being slammed into walls and deprived of sleep and solid food for days, "constituted torture," the Red Cross document said.

Other methods "constituted cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," it said.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights have both urged an aggressive investigation of officials who allegedly approved the use of torture, citing revelations in court documents and other sources already made public.

"I think there is enough evidence in the public domain to warrant a much more serious investigation than has been conducted thus far," Jameel Jaffer, director of ACLU's national security program, told AFP.

"And there's certainly enough evidence out there to warrant the appointment of an independent prosecutor to look into criminal responsibility for the torture of prisoners in CIA custody," Jaffer said.

ICRC officials did not dispute the authenticity of the report, but a spokesman at the agency's headquarters in Geneva regretted that the document was made public. The CIA declined to comment.

The report carried added weight given the neutrality of the ICRC, a humanitarian organization that carefully avoids political comment and works to assist those detained or displaced in war.

At least five copies of the report had been shared with the CIA and top White House officials in 2007, but barred from public release by ICRC guidelines intended to preserve the organization's policy of neutrality.

Rights activists speculated the document may have been leaked by officials in the current administration amid internal debates about detention policies.

As a signatory to the UN convention banning torture, the United States may be legally obliged to carry out a probe of former officials, Mendelson said.

"I think they are compelled to open some kind of investigation by allegations of torture, under the convention against torture," she said.

"That investigation does not need to be made public but they need to be doing it."

Some Democrats in Congress have called for a truth commission to look into a range of alleged abuses by the former administration as part of the "war on terror," including CIA interrogations at secret sites and warrantless wiretapping.

Obama has offered a cool reception to calls for truth commissions but has not ruled out possible prosecutions, saying no one should be above the law.

The president said last month that "my general orientation is to say let's get it right moving forward."

Since Obama took office, government departments have released documents that have shed light on how the previous administration carried out controversial policies, such as the transfer of prisoners for secret interrogations.

Republican lawmakers meanwhile have condemned the truth commission proposal as a witch-hunt.

Some critics of the Bush administration say even a truth commission inquiry would be a half-measure.

"This is not about mistakes. This is about fundamental lawbreaking, about the disposal of the Constitution, and about the end of treaties," Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a radio interview earlier this

I wonder if the US will veto anything related to this investigation or the release of the results. Of course if it was Iran doing the torturing...

On a lighter note:

The talking dog -

A guy is driving around the back woods of Tennessee and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house:
"Talking Dog For Sale."
He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.

"You talk?" he asks.
"Yep," the dog replies.

After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says "So, what's your story?"

The dog looks up and says, "Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded several medals.

I wanted to help America, so I interviewed with the the CIA.
In no time at all they had me traveling around the world and hanging out with spies and world leaders. After all, no one figured a dog could eavesdrop. I proved to be one of their most valuable spies for a decade.
But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting any younger.
So, I decided to settle down.
I got married and had a mess of puppies.
Now I'm just retired."

The guy is amazed.
He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
"Ten bucks," the guy says.
"This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him for just ten dollars?"


"Because he's a liar! He never did any of that stuff!"