Torture doesn’t work to produce actionable intelligence. Indeed, it harms our national security and creates more terrorists [6].
Because torture is blatantly illegal [6], the Bush and Obama administrations have tried to hide America’s torture by shipping prisoners to foreign countries … so they can torture them for us [6].
Similarly, mass spying by the NSA and other agencies doesn’t prevent terror attacks [7] … but actually interferes with our ability to stop them [8].
Because mass spying on Americans is blatantly illegal [9] (and see this [10]), the Bush and Obama administrations have tried to hide America’s Big Brother act by shipping Americans’ most confidential, sensitive information to foreign countries like Israel [11] (and here [12]) the UK [13] and other countries … so they can “unmask” the information [14] and give it back to the NSA.
In other words, the NSA is subverting the legal prohibition against mass spying on Americans by shipping data overseas … and then having our allies give it back to us [15].
The list of countries which are doing this for the NSA are almost certainly as follows:
- Israel [15]
- Canada [16]
- Britain [16]
- Australia [16]
- New Zealand [16]
Postscript: Unfortunately, the American elite aren’t particularly concerned with protecting the basic rights [17] – let alone the sovereignty [18] – of the American people.
