Torture Orders Came From The Top.

On the day that we hear of yet another low ranking soldier taking a torture rap whilst those further up the food chain fake outrage, I thought it might be worth a trawl through the net to see if there is anyone who might share my suspicions.

And golly gosh... there is.

And he's no small potato. It no less a figure than former CIA boss Stansfield Turner. Apparently he was interviewed by ITV news here in the UK in November last year and said, "It's the vice president who is out there advocating torture. He's the one who has made himself the vice president in favor of torture."

"We military people don't want future military people who are taken prisoner by other countries to be subjected to torture in the name of doing just what the United States does."

"The orders came right from the top, filtered down from the secretary of defense, with the endorsement of the President, the Vice President, whatever advisors are surrounding them, filtered down through the Commanders in the field, these practices were not only endorsed, but were in use at Guantanamo bay and in locations in Afghanistan. And when General Miller visited Iraq he brought those techniques with him. And then he sent contract interrogators who had 'performed well' at Guantanamo Bay to Iraq as well."

Now why aren't we hearing calls from Democrats about this? This is a former Head of the CIA saying that it went all the way to the top.