Author writes why “Zero Dark Thirty” won’t settle the torture question or purge torture from the American system.
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Six critical foreign policy questions that won’t be raised in the Presidential debates.
Techniques that the US hanged men for at Nuremburg and in post-war Japan are now employed and declared lawful.
![John Kiriakou went on record as the first CIA official to confirm "the use of waterboarding of al-Qaeda prisoners as an interrogation technique, and then to condemn it as torture" [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2012917134820560580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why has the US spent so much money and time “so disastrously trying to rebuild occupied nations abroad”?
![Reconstruction in Iraq has failed, "dismally", and the US "could not even restore" the country’s electric system or give a majority of its people potable water [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/201282313814711734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The Obama administration aggressively prosecutes whistleblowers, but turns a blind eye to politically beneficial leaks.
Under Obama, six whistleblowers have been charged under the World War I-era Espionage Act.
Federal employees are the only ones who know what’s happening inside the government and their voices are being silenced.
The US bought a $2.58m chicken factory in Iraq without any market research for a nonexistent fresh chicken market.
A State Department employee was scapegoated for linking an already published WikiLeaks document to his blog.
