US taking no responsibility for CIA torture cases: Commentator
Press TV has conducted an interview with Steven Kelley, a former CIA contractor from Los Angeles, to ask for his insight on CIA’s torture of inmates on Polish territory.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Why have countries like Poland agreed to risk their reputation over the CIA prisons?
Kelley: Well, Poland has certainly, what you might say, an inferiority complex, has ever since World War II. Certainly, they have felt that they have been picked on and they somehow think the United States is going to increase their prestige and their standing in the world and help them to stand up to the Soviet Union and their previous enemies. But I have to say, I think this settlement is extremely pitiful and pathetic. It is a tiny tiny amount, very insignificant.
Press TV: Can these host countries like Poland take legal action against Washington? I mean, is this a done deal that cannot be undone?
Kelley: Oh, very much so, as we have said before, many of the western European countries have signed security agreements with the NSA. Security treaties that are binding and irrevocable. And I’m sure Poland has got itself into a similar situation. So, the population of Poland is probably unaware of the backroom deals made by their leadership with the United States.
Press TV: Why do you think no US officials has been held accountable for these violations so far?
Kelley: Well, they don’t want to admit today that this is even going on and this is why it’s being done in other countries. And certainly the laws are set up in such a way that no American officials or anybody in any current or previous administration will ever see any sort of prosecution for anything that is going on in any of these countries and that is exactly why they are doing over there.
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