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CIA recruiting at Virginia Tech
The
Truth Will Set You Free
Tuesday April 17, 2007
"The single shooter was unusally
effective at killing, almost as if he had been trained to do
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From November 2005 . . .
For
the second time this year, the Central Intelligence Agency will
be coming to Virginia Tech to recruit students.
And for the second time this year, they will be met with protests
from students who view the CIA as an immoral organization that engages
in torture and murder.
Nicholas Kiersey organized a protest last spring when the CIA came
to campus. He released the following statement Monday about the
CIA's trip to Torgeson 3100 Thursday at 7 p.m.:
"Blacksburg, VA November 13, 2005 - A coalition of concerned
graduate students and campus organizations at Virginia Tech are
this Thursday staging a 'teach in' to protest CIA recruitment on
campus. Planned events also include the protest of a 'career information'
session to be held by the CIA later that evening.
On November 2nd, 2005 the Washington Post published an article
entitled “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons”.
The article reported that the CIA has set up a covert network of
secret prisons and interrogation centers, known as “black
sites”, in several countries around the world, including several
democracies in Eastern Europe and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Prisoners at these facilities are held indefinitely and often in
isolation, without due process of the law. Moreover, CIA interrogators
working at these sites are permitted to use the CIA's approved "Enhanced
Interrogation Techniques," some of which are prohibited by
the U.N. convention and by U.S. military law. Among the tactics
approved for use are "waterboarding", intended to induce
in prisoners the idea that they are drowning.
While intelligence officials defend the unrestricted operation
of these sites as necessary for the successful defense of the country,
it should be noted that both the sites and the suspected practices
carried out at them would be illegal if operated within the USA,
which is a signatory to the U.N. Convention Against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Importantly,
the same is true for the democratic host states in Eastern Europe
where some of these sites are located.
The 'Teach In' will take place on Thursday, Nov. 17, 5-6.30pm,
in Torgerson 3100. The event will feature talks by Virginia Tech
instructors and the presentation of a draft letter to President
Steger's office, signed by a number of concerned Virginia Tech faculty
and students.
The letter will request that Virginia Tech place a moratorium on
all CIA activities on Virginia Tech's campus until such time as
a thorough and independent investigation certifies that the organization
has been thoroughly reformed and no longer engages in practices
that contravene international law and basic standards of human rights.
The CIA's scheduled 'career information' session will take place
at 7pm in the same location.
Sponsoring campus organizations include: The International Club
and Amnesty International at Virginia Tech."
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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