Axsmith.... speaks for many in the CIA who cannot believe - let alone condone - what this administration has endorsed.The story was picked up from The Washington Post, Top-secret World Loses Blogger.
Hundreds of blog posts appear on Intelink. The CIA says blogs and other electronic tools are used by people working on the same issue to exchange information and ideas.
The day of the last post, Axsmith said, after reading a newspaper report that the CIA would join the rest of the U.S. government in according Geneva Conventions rights to prisoners, she posted her views on the subject.
It started, she said, something like this: "Waterboarding is Torture and Torture is Wrong."
And it continued, she added, with something like this: "CC had the sad occasion to read interrogation transcripts in an assignment that should not be made public. And, let's just say, European lives were not saved."
The kempeitei’s torture manual, Notes for the Interrogation of Prisoners of War, issued by Japan's Hayashi Division in Burma on Friday August 6, 1943, captured by the Allies and introduced as evidence before the Tokyo tribunal warned: “Care must be exercised when making use of rebukes, incentives or torture as it will result in his telling falsehoods and making a fool of you.”
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