Illegal CIA Functions

This is just sick. The article details the CIA jails around the world (including in democratically ruled countries, unspecified, in Eastern Europe), where prisoners are tortured and held in isolation indefinitely. I have met someone who was chased by U.S.-supported death squads in El Salvador and who was subjected to what is now called 'waterboarding', drowning people and recussitating them. It provoked, as far as I can tell, irreversible mental problems. He seemed distant, 15-20 years after it occurred. He was totally detached from everything, left in a parallel universe, still having nightmares and other reactions to what happened to him. It affected me greatly to hear from him and I would never had heard had he not been rescued by the personal entreaty of my former representative, Connie Morella (R-MD), the only Republican I have ever voted for.
Waterboarding is an abhorrent practice and it and other illegal practices (under U.N. treaties and U.S. military law) are being used. In order for it to get going, George W. Bush had to sign off on it (not necessarily specifics, but for the general practice) because it is a covert CIA mission. Reprehensible! It must be stopped!