are they at a undisclosed location? lies always bring more lies........religion seems to always tell us its for our own good that we do not know......Don't talk about that they would say.......stay full of fear and you can be controled
2007-12-08 16:26:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The American people aren't allowed to see what is on torture tapes because the interrogation methods used, the identity of those using the methods, and the subjects receiving the methods, are highly classified because leaking the information would cause exceptionally grave danger to US national security. So yes, torture happens at undisclosed locations to provide operational security. Lies do bring more lies, but I'm being honest with you in telling you that you don't have a NEED to know. Religion plays no part in any of this, and keeping information from the public isn't enforced to control people or to instill fear into them. Ask yourself this...what advantage in the war on terror could I provide my country by knowing the specifics of the torture tapes? Hmm...can't think of anything. Now, what DISadvantage could I provide? To start with, you'd know the location and people involved, so now you could share that information with people who want to destroy that location and interrogate those people. See where I'm going?
2007-12-08 16:53:05 · answer #1 · answered by NunyaBizzness 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT !!! we have no right to see those tapes, we have no right to see who is on those tapes!!! the people who are interrogating the terrorists have rights!!! they have the right to continue a safe and secure life with their families without looking over their shoulders, w/o worrying if someone will harm their children because they tried to find out if they planned another attack against the American People!!! are you insane??? you have no right to see those tapes!! congress has no rights, even Bush hasnt a right to see them!!! religion has nothing to do with this !!! undisclosed location for a reason, they arent gonna take you there and say "this is where we question terrorists, would you care to have an espresso and sit in on the next interrogation, sir?" are you kidding me?? you want to see what happens??? go to the nearest recruiters office, sign the dotted line, go through basic, then later maybe 8 or 10 yrs SF training, make sure you are Intel, then even later you can retire, maybe become CIA and MAYBE interrogate a terrorist, see if you want everyone in the world to view a tape of you doing your job, my guess is no!
2007-12-09 01:48:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do American's DESERVE to know what is on the tapes? What have you, or the country as a whole, done to DESERVE that privelege? You may want to know but you do not have a right to know. The fact is, is those tapes probably contained classified information which you would not be entitled to anyway. The fact they were destroyed does not change fact number one. Sure, there may have been something damaging to the CIA on those tapes but that still doesn't give us the right to know their contents. Possibly, the identification of an interrogator was known on one of those tapes. Maybe the identification of the person being questioned was contained on the tapes. Everybody was in an uproar over the alleged outing of the Plame chick (despite the fact she outed herself way before the media), yet you claim the classified information should be known by all.
Trust me, having had a security clearance of my own, other than national security, there is a reason the people do not need to know the contents of classified material. Frankly, it would scare the hell out of this country. If all the classified material was made known, there would be widespread panic from shore to shore in this country.
What is on the alleged torture tapes? You don't need to know and probably don't want to know.
2007-12-09 00:41:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What torture tapes? You mean the tapes the CIA destroyed? How do you know what is on it?How is Religion apart of this? How is destroying the tapes keeping you in fear? You need a better question and stop trying to type so dramatic it just sounds stupid.
2007-12-09 00:32:15 · answer #4 · answered by Richard 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
What would be the benefit of viewing them? Does it matter if you see them, your life would be the same. It's the monsterous part of the human mind that WANTS to see torture, the people tortured should be respected when they die by not having people watch for entertainment because you REALLY don't actually care. If people are exposed to something over and over again, it becomes less shocking-which is sad because it makes people completely apathetic. I'm not religious but doesn't religion also teach morals and goodness, integrity and giving?...
2007-12-09 00:41:29 · answer #5 · answered by Jenna 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Firstly...
"Lies always bring more lies."
Tell that to your beloved CNN. You know, the ones who portrayed an Army wash-out as a veteran opposing the war.
Secondly...
"Religion seems to always tell us it's for our own good that we do not know."
Au contraire, mon amie. Religion advises us to seek the Truth, because the Truth will set us free.
2007-12-09 03:36:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We really don't need to know what was done to the terrorists--or just what THEY confessed on them. That sensitive information very likely allowed us to save millions of innocent lives from another high-profile Al-Quaida attack.
Given that, a "criminal investigation" of the CIA is laughable: erased/destroyed tapes logically aren't evidence (because nothing is on them). We're not going to see arrests, trials and prison convictions......end of story.
The CIA can admit to the tape destruction and say "what about it??"
2007-12-09 00:55:39 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No we don't need to know sometimes we must allow our government to control what is happening and to stop something like 9/11 before it happens.During times of war we must do things that are not very kind or nice but it beats sticking American in the ground because we did not go that extra mile by making these clowns talk.
2007-12-09 00:36:31 · answer #8 · answered by Michael B 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We know WHO was on the tapes...Abu Zubaydah — who under questioning gave up information leading to the capture of Sept. 11 conspirator Ramzi Binalshibh, also referred to as the "20th hijacker".
Does it really matter what they did to this scumbag to get him to talk?
People like this deserve to die, but no, he gets fed 3 times daily, somewhere to sleep, and the freedom to practice his bastardization of Islam...and we all pay for it.
How quickly people seem to forget...
2007-12-09 00:52:27 · answer #9 · answered by Jason L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Frankly I don't care what they did to them. People captured on the battlefield, out of uniform, and in armed combat with our troops are according the Geneva conventions commiting a war crime, and can be executed on the spot.
After we've wrung out of them what ever useful information we can they should be executed.
In fact the purpose of requiring uniforms is not to protect troops but to protect the civilian population. If we really care about protecting civilians and obeying the Geneva conventions these illegal combatants would be executed as quickly as possible. Just as they were in all past wars.
2007-12-09 00:38:20 · answer #10 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋