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| Amid Denuciations of Torture, Some Praise for U.S. Openness | |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s president said Wednesday that he was astounded by the new revelations of Central Intelligence Agency torture in his country and elsewhere, adding his name to the overwhelming global reaction of shock, anger and cynicism that has swelled in the past day. | KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s president said Wednesday that he was astounded by the new revelations of Central Intelligence Agency torture in his country and elsewhere, adding his name to the overwhelming global reaction of shock, anger and cynicism that has swelled in the past day. |
| At a news conference in Kabul, the president, Ashraf Ghani, said he received the Senate report describing the abuses late Tuesday and stayed up all night reading it. He said he was seeking more information on precisely how many Afghans had been victims. | |
| “The report shows that the principles of human rights, as well as the Constitution of the United States and universally accepted ethics had been violated by the C.I.A. and its contractors,” Mr. Ghani said. | |
| “This report,” he said, “shows that our fellow countrymen have unfortunately been tortured and had their rights violated.” Some of those, he said, “were proven to be entirely innocent.” | |
| Mr. Ghani sought to emphasize that the abused detailed in the report were from an earlier era. And he said he wanted “the entire nation to know” that the recent security agreement between the Afghan government and the United States did not permit Americans to maintain prisons or make arrests in Afghanistan. | |
| “We are entering an era of national sovereignty where we will be the only legitimate authority and no one else,” he said. | |
| World outrage to the report, a Senate panel’s scathing critique of the C.I.A. techniques used to interrogate terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks, took on a new element on Wednesday: praise for the United States government for having the honesty to disclose wrongdoing. | |
| The new United Nations human rights commissioner, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, welcomed the release of the report. “Few countries will admit that their state apparatus has been practicing torture, and many continue shamelessly to deny it,” he said in a statement. | |
| Mr. Hussain also cited the Convention Against Torture, reinforcing a view that the C.I.A. torturers and their superiors must be held accountable. | Mr. Hussain also cited the Convention Against Torture, reinforcing a view that the C.I.A. torturers and their superiors must be held accountable. |
| “The convention lets no one off the hook – neither the torturers themselves, nor the policy-makers, nor the public officials who define the policy or give the orders,” he said. | “The convention lets no one off the hook – neither the torturers themselves, nor the policy-makers, nor the public officials who define the policy or give the orders,” he said. |
| There was a conspicuous absence of reaction to the news from Syria, where the state news agency ignored it entirely. | There was a conspicuous absence of reaction to the news from Syria, where the state news agency ignored it entirely. |
| In Lebanon, social media and Arab-language newspapers directed hostility toward the Arab countries that helped enable the torture, like Saudi Arabia and Jordan. A Facebook posting by an editor of the Al Monitor newspaper asked which Arab government would be the first to issue reports of abuses by its own security forces. | |
| Poland’s former president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, who led the country from 1995 to 2005 and was a close American ally, broke with years of denial on Wednesday and acknowledged that he had permitted the C.I.A. to operate a clandestine interrogation center in Poland. | Poland’s former president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, who led the country from 1995 to 2005 and was a close American ally, broke with years of denial on Wednesday and acknowledged that he had permitted the C.I.A. to operate a clandestine interrogation center in Poland. |
| Mr. Kwasniewski said at a news conference at the Polish Parliament that American intelligence agents had been permitted use of a site to question “people who had expressed willingness to cooperate with the Americans.” He said he had not been aware of what, precisely, had taken place inside the site. | |
| “Intelligence usually works in a discretionary manner and, unfortunately, often balancing on the border of law,” Mr. Kwasniewski said. “However, the goal of that was not the torture in itself. The goal was to obtain information that would allow us to prevent things from happening.” | |
| Cooperation with the C.I.A. and taking risks were necessary, Mr. Kwasniewski said, to build the Polish-American trust. “There are no free lunches,” he said. “You can’t get someone’s support without contributing something first.” |