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9/11: Does The End Justify The Means?
Canada Free Press
By Leigh Bravo December 11, 2014
Can anyone NOT remember where they were or what they were doing on September 11, 2001, the day the two planes hit the twin towers in New York? Will we ever be able to forget the images of innocent civilians jumping hundreds of floors to their death to avoid being consumed by flames?
It is and will remain a day that will live in infamy to every citizen in the United States who sat in uninterrupted disbelief at what their own eyes were witnessing on television the morning of the attacks. Can any of us forget the images of family members desperately seeking their loved ones after the towers fell? We all watched in horror for weeks as the mangled pieces of the towers were searched for the slightest possibility that someone survived the collapse and could, miraculously, offer us a glimmer of hope among the devastation.Who could imagine that when 125 people left their homes for work at the Pentagon that they would never return home to their families? What about the passengers who rushed the hijackers in the cockpit of flight 93 knowing they would lose their lives in order to prevent another purposeful attack on United States soil? On September 11, 2001, 3000 innocent people lost their lives due to terrorist attacks.
What would we be willing to do or give up to ensure that this kind of attack would never happen again? What would we be willing to do to find the people responsible for the attack and bring them to justice?
December 9, 2015, Diane Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence committee, insisted on the release of a 500 page summary of a 6200 page report by the Senate Intelligence committee on CIA intelligence activities. A report on the actions and activities of the CIA committed to ensure that the United States would never suffer another terrorist attack. Five and a half years and over $40 million taxpayer dollars were spent on investigating their actions post 9/11. The document investigates 119 individuals that were detained overseas and the use of “coercive interrogation techniques – in some cases amounting to torture.”
On “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Michael Hayden, former CIA director said the report “would damage CIA morale by making the workforce, ‘feel as if it has been tried and convicted in absentia since the senate Democrats and their staff didn’t talk to anyone actively involved in the program.’ He also said the information would motivate people to attack Americans and American facilities overseas, and making U.S, allies wary about cooperating with America in the future.”House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers and Senator Saxby Chambliss, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee argued against the release of the report and claimed the interrogation techniques were necessary to gain needed intelligence. The report itself claims the “extreme” interrogation failed to produce any good intelligence that resulted in the prevention of any further deaths of Americans. However, the CIA disagreed with this conclusion.
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