Tom Malinowski
Tom Malinowski
Tomasz P. Malinowski is a U.S. diplomat and the current Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor...
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The administration is setting a dangerous example for the world when it claims that spy agencies are above the law.
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There's not just confusion between the U.S. definition and everybody else's definition of torture, there's profound confusion within the U.S. government.
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We have a high degree of confidence that such facilities exist in at least Poland and Romania.
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It doesn't fix the problem that there isn't a single clear standard consistent with the law and our values, ... Even if all these documents end up establishing appropriate standards, we need to remember that what the secretary of defense does today he can undo tomorrow.
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I am glad the CIA is investigating the cases that they are aware of, but by definition you are not going to be aware of all such cases, when you have a process designed to avoid judicial safeguards.
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What is really clear is that this is a dead-end policy and they are close to the dead end.
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This was somebody who worked very hard to make sure the advice of senior military officials and national security professionals on the question of interrogation policies was ignored. The result was an unmitigated disaster for the United States.
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It's not like these people were once considered to be a threat and now are not. These people need to be released, either in another country or the U.S. They're America's responsibility.
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It's pathetic that they're still shuttling cash to this dictatorship after it has violated every commitment it made to the United States.
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The administration demanded that soldiers extract information from detainees without telling them what was allowed and what was forbidden. Yet when abuses inevitably followed, the leadership blamed the soldiers in the field instead of taking responsibility.
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We've seen a series of half-hearted investigations and slaps on the wrist. The government seems more interested in managing the detainee abuse scandal than in addressing the underlying problems that caused it.
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There's a lot of public pressure to retain the language intact. At the same time, there's pressure from the vice president's office to modify it.
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They are explicitly saying, for the first time, that the intelligence community should have the ability to treat prisoners inhumanely, ... You can't tell soldiers that inhumane treatment is always morally wrong if they see with their own eyes that C.I.A. personnel are allowed to engage in it.
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And there is no way anyone could, even if the military was twice as conscientious. It is unknowable, unless you assume that every act of abuse is immediately reported up the chain of command.