Targeting Whistleblowers

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/06/targeting-whistleblowers-truth-telling-endangered/

"On April 16, journalist John Cole wrote:

'The message is clear – you torture people and then destroy the evidence, and you get off without so much as a sternly worded letter. If you are a whistle blower outlining criminal behavior by the government, you get prosecuted.'

In fact, it’s worse. Under Bush, torture was official policy. It remains so under Obama who absolved CIA torturers, despite unequivocal evidence of their guilt. But leaking it risks criminal prosecution for revealing state secrets and endangering national security."'

Little do people realize that the torture no longer has to be in a prison camp. It can be done in public spaces and private through covert warfare and technology. Many targets experience just what is written above. If overt torture gets little attention or consequence then what of such actions being covert.