Prime Minister Stephen Harper brushed off questions asking whether he would raise the matter with the United States. He said it happened when the Liberals were in office - and told reporters they should ask Stéphane Dion, then the minister for federal-provincial relations...
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Unclear Who In Government Knew About CSIS Torture Concerns
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The most common strategies of accommodation, acceptance, or justification include relying on state authority and formal orders, using abstraction and other linguistic transformations, dehumanizing victims, sanctioning revenge, preventing destruction, making the torturer the victim, obtaining essential information, denying relationship or responsibility, and denying the existence of torture.
Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman wrote: "It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering."
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