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Bachman, Cain approve illegal torture, Paul, Huntsman oppose

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Human Rights Examiner

Pesidential hopefuls' take on torture indicate who believes in human rights based Constitution and international law

Saturday night, during the CBS News/National Journal presidential question and answer program, a television "debate", Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann said they would support waterboarding, while Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman strongly disagreed with this illegal torture, a grave human rights abuse the United States has been committing with impunity, lining pockets of private contarctors and associates that President Obama has allowed to continue although admitting today, torture is 'wrong' after he raised the bar by signing his Targeted Killings Executive Order, also illegal.

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"Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann said at the CBS News/National Journal presidential debate Saturday night that they would support the renewed use of waterboarding, which Cain said he did not consider a form of torture," recapped CBS.

"Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman strongly disagreed with the practice.renewed use of waterboarding, which Cain said he did not consider a form of torture."
 
Rick Perry used the proven fallacy that torture prevents crime including terrorism and that the United States is in a war on terror, saying about torture, "This is war. That's what happens in war."
 
President Obama now states torture is "wrong."
 
"The laws of the United States make waterboarding unlawful in no uncertain terms," Wilcon R. Huhn has stated in the University of Washington Law Review.
 
In September,  the international human rights group Reprieve unveiled some 1700 documents, provided by its investigators, about the CIA's unlawful international kidnap-for-torture program, "rendition," the first overview of how the U.S. secret programme was structured, managed and profitable for corporations involved in torturing some so-called "terror suspects" as first reported by the Guardian.
 
An analysis of documents in relation to innocent Targeted Individuals in American communities, watch-listed as "terror suspects" since 911 and numbering at least 350,000, has yet to be reported.
 
With DynCorps playing a major role, private business jets shuttling as many as 10 landings over a single mission have cost government as much as $300,000 per flight according to the Associated Press report in September.
 
 Obama promised Americans both transparency or accountability. There has been neither in the realm of torture.  New York Times reported, however, that "Congress should impeach Bybee," one of the "torture judges." It also stated that "if the administration will not conduct a thorough investigation of these issues, then Congress has a constitutional duty to hold the executive branch accountable.” 

After President Obama signed his Targeted Killing Executive Order, Warren  Vince Warren, Executive Director of Center for Constitutional Rrights said, "An extrajudicial killing policy under which names are added to CIA and military 'kill lists' through a secret executive process and stay there for months at a time is plainly not limited to imminent threats."
 
“The United States cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so.” 
 
Now that elections are being debated, President Obama states torture is illegal as reported by ABC reported Monday.
 
"President Obama said today that Republican presidential candidates are 'wrong' to defend the practice of waterboarding, which he said is torture."
 
Not one high-level official has been held accountable for torture during Bush or Obama regimes.

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Deborah Dupre' holds American and Australian science and education graduate degrees plus thirty years human rights, environmental and peace activism; led Aboriginal Pacific Islander and Australian research; holds pivotal role in FUEL; co-founded America's Green Team, FUEL; lectures on Ancient...

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