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user-inactivated · 3477 days ago · link · · parent · post: I Went to Prison After Exposing US Torture. Why Weren’t the Perpetrators Charged?
Why should the Senate’s torture report elicit less response than a photograph? It was wrong in 1968 to commit torture. It’s still wrong — and prosecutable — in 2015.In 1968, for example, The Washington Post published a photo of a U.S. soldier waterboarding a North Vietnamese prisoner. The Defense Department investigated the incident, court-martialed the soldier, and convicted him of torture.