Readers have asked for my take on the CIA torture report. There is so much information and commentary available that it is unnecessary.

Igor Volsky  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40428.htm  provides a concise summary. President George W. Bush signed off on torture and then told the gullible people that “this government does not torture people.” The torture was horrific.

The CIA even tortured its own informers. Two American psychologists who designed the torture program were paid $81 million.

CIA torturers received cash awards for “consistently superior work” when their innocent victims died. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40431.htm

The US government involved 54 countries in its torture program. The rendition program sent detainees to other countries where they were tortured in secret “black sites.’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40435.htm 

Obama tortures also.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40430.htm

Those Americans who committed crimes as horrific as any in history have been given a pass by Obama. No accountability for their crimes. http://news.antiwar.com/2014/12/10/justice-dept-spurns-calls-to-prosecute-cia-torturers/

This finishes off the rule of law in America, which was already on life support. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40434.htm 

CIA Torture Report Sparks Worldwide Condemnation Even Nations That Participated Were Shocked How Far It Went
http://news.antiwar.com/2014/12/10/cia-torture-report-sparks-worldwide-condemnation/

A history of the CIA’s torture program: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/timeline-of-cias-secret-interrogation-program.html?_r=0 

Former president of Poland admits that Poland hosted a CIA torture prison: http://news.antiwar.com/2014/12/10/former-polish-president-admits-to-cia-torture-site/ 

CIA destroyed evidence of its crimes:

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/2014/12/10/levin-interrogation-cia-tapes-torture/20207577/

Just google CIA torture report and you will find much to read, including justifications of the torture program by neoconservatives, Republican members of the House and Senate, Dick Cheney, the presstitute media, and a large number of others.

Here’s my two cents:  One purpose of the torture program was to produce self-incriminated “terrorists” to justify and feed the hoax “war on terror.” The “war on terror” was public cover for secret agendas that the American people would have rejected. This is disturbing enough. Even more disturbing, the torture program shows that no one in the US and European governments who knew of it and participated in it has an ounce of humanity, integrity, compassion, and morality. They are evil people, and the ones who inflicted the torture enjoyed the pain and suffering that they inflicted on others.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics.^[1] He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy.

He has written extensively on the effects of the neo-liberal economic policies pursued since the 1990s and about jobs-offshoring which he has strongly criticised. He has argued that these policies, favouring the financial services “industry” at the expense of other sectors of the economy, has eroded America’s industrial capacity, its workers’ skills and has sharply decreased upward social mobility. He has stated that these policies which condemned American workers to low-paying unskilled jobs, as the only jobs available, caused them to increase their net personal debt to maintain living standards, significantly contributed to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. These positions are covered in greater detail in his book The Failure of Laissez-Faire Capitalism and the Economic Erosion of the West (2012).

During the 21st century, Roberts has frequently published in Counterpunch, writing extensively about the effects of the Bush (and later Obama) administrations related to the War on Terror, which he says have destroyed the US Constitution‘s protections of Americans’ civil liberties, such as habeas corpus and due process. He has taken positions different from former Republican allies, opposing the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, and criticizing Israel’s policies and actions against the Palestinians.^[2]