In an interview with National Journal magazine, John Negroponte -- currently Deputy Secretary of State and before that the first Director of National Intelligence and long before that a real slimeball in the US's covert operations against Central America -- said:
"We've taken steps to address the issue of interrogations, for instance, and waterboarding has not been used in years . . . It (waterboarding) wasn't used when I was director of national intelligence, nor even a few years before that. I get concerned that we're too retrospective and tend to look in the rearview mirror too often at things that happened four or even six years ago." [Reuters story about the interview]
I never realized there was a statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. In any event, we now have public confirmation (like we needed it) that US interrogators engaged in torture. Can we prosecute someone now, like the President?
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