The Bush White House began planning for torture in December 2001, set up a program to develop the interrogation techniques by the next month, and the military and the CIA began training interrogators in coercive practices in early 2002, before they had any high-value al-Qaida suspects or any trouble eliciting information from detainees.
-Mark Benjamin, Torture Planning Began in 2001 @Salon.com
There we have it in a nutshell - the truth about torture under the Bush's regime. Contrary to what we have been told, the Bush administration did not seek redefining torture and implementing new torturing procedures as a last ditch effort to save mankind but was earlier conceived by Rumsfeld and others post 9/11. The most terrifying aspect of this report is how glibly President Bush defended and lied to the American public and to the greater world audience about their new torturing procedures. He assured that they were ONLY used in cases where the terrorist suspects had been taught to withstand and evade typical interrogation techniques. But the truth is far scarier and disturbing.
I wonder what happens now? There are already several lawsuits filed against the Bush administration by tortured victims from Guatanamo Prison who declared they were illegally interned and tortured. But with these new revelations and with the swarming of the global media around these reports and punditry, will it open the pandora's box for newer victims to come forth and testify their experiences in being interrogated using 'special procedures' devised by the Bush's regime?
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