Foreign Affairs suspects U.S. tortures prisoners
Mike Blanchfield, Ottawa Citizen
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2008
OTTAWA - A Foreign Affairs document has identified the United States and Israel as countries it suspects of practicing torture.
The document also defines such U.S. interrogation techniques as blindfolding and forced nudity as torture.
The emergence of the document - a PowerPoint presentation meant to instruct Canadian diplomats on how to recognize torture cases abroad - is bound to strain relations with the two countries that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has sought to strengthen during his two years in power.
Read the whole piece HERE.
I don't know about you, but I am so over the current state of the country at this point that if I hear anyone even remotely suggest that this president did a good job at anything, I'll lose my lunch.
And so it goes.
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