Nat Parry — Torture-Tainted CIA and State Nominees Recall Failure to Prosecute Bush-Era Abuses

Summary:
The declining human rights standards on display with the Haspel and Pompeo nominations are the latest in a long line of policy failures that include the Obama administration’s lack of prosecutions of Bush-era torture, Nat Parry notes. If a person is OK with torture and assassination, that person is OK with anything. Is this an indication of psychopathology or more seriously, sociopathology? Consortium NewsTorture-Tainted CIA and State Nominees Recall Failure to Prosecute Bush-Era Abuses Nat Parry

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Barack Obama, CIA, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Gina Haspel, Mike Pompeo, torture

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