Web Letters: Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze

America's Political Paralysis Over Torture

By Alfred W. McCoy

June 9, 2009

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  • This whole torture episode has been the most embarrassing and humiliating thing that has ever happened to our country. I would rather die than let this happen again. Nothing is so important that we need to treat other human beings with so little respect and compassion.

    If this is to be standard operating procedure at the CIA, then we need to close down the CIA and hire some smart people.

    Apparently there are a whole bunch of people who never read and understood the Constitution and couldn't care less what it really means.

    Gary Amstutz
    The Democratic Club of Kern County

    Lake Isabella, CA

    06/09/2009 @ 12:53pm


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