Very powerful article, from ret. FBI Coleen Rowley on "Torture is Wrong" by another FBI agent

[annm4peace]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/needed-re-torture-issue-r_b_191030.html

This article is very powerful, and if the Administation was smart they would hire back Coleen Rowley and Ali Soufan to help clean up the CIA and FBI


(My own side note:
For the last 4 years Ms. Rowley has traveled the country speaking out about torture and why it doesn't work and also about the destruction of our civil liberties. I recently found out she usually does this for free. Even after being forced to retire after being a whistleblower.

She is a great animated speaker and if you can invite her to your events, please see if you can pay her. She would never ask, but she does have a family and deserve it, she is so courageous and brave for speaking out and giving the truth of how FBI and other law-enforcement works. )

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Back in December 2007, when I wrote "Torture is Wrong, Illegal and It Doesn't Work", I mentioned that "the FBI agent who reportedly had the best chance of foiling the 9/11 plot, Ali Soufan, the only Arabic-speaking agent in New York and one of only eight in the country, and who has since resigned from the FBI, could and should tell people the truth of how the CIA's tactics were counterproductive."

Well guess what?! HE FINALLY DID SO YESTERDAY!

"My Tortured Decision" is how former FBI Agent Soufan titled his New York Times op-ed, speaking out to specifically refute a number of Dick Cheney's lies about how torture "worked". The truth, according to Soufan, is quite the opposite:

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[Klukie]

2. She is right on in this article...

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