Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein speaks to reporters about the committee’s CIA torture report on Tuesday. (Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images)
Re: “Senate CIA interrogation report details brutality, dishonesty,” Dec. 10 news story.
Justice requires equal accountability, for rich old white men as well as poor young black men.
As described in the just-released Senate report, our leaders, up to and including George W. Bush during his presidency, knowingly authorized a premeditated, planned and extensive program of brutal torture that lasted for years as part of the “war on terror.” This program violated U.S. law, violated multiple international laws and treaties, and accordingly violated our Constitution, which requires that treaties be respected.
The men who created, authorized and carried out these programs are war criminals, as surely as any war criminals in poor developing countries. If they cannot be indicted, tried and sentenced in our courts, then do so in the International Criminal Court, which has jurisdiction over war crimes, including torture.
Every Army private learns the laws of war. These men knew what they were doing and must be held accountable.
Martin L. Buchanan, Denver
This letter was published in the Dec. 11 edition.The disclosure of the CIA torture program is devastating and surreal. This is a day that will live in infamy for all Americans who have been saying all along that “it couldn’t be true.” Sadly, it is true, and itap not clear we have even heard the worst of it. The acts committed were unspeakable and totally indefensible. Truly a black day for America the beautiful.
Ann Freeman, Lakewood
This letter was published in the Dec. 11 edition.
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