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"Mr President, one thing Mr Brok says accurately is that we both met Dianne Feinstein in the United States on the NSA inquiry. She was brave then, and she was brave on this subject. She faced huge pressure on the question of making this report happen. We should be very aware – and Mr Coelho will agree – that we have now been vindicated on our 2006 CIA rendition inquiry and our report, which were happening in a very different context in a very different time. I would remind colleagues that, in 2006, when we in this Parliament investigated with secondary sources – not the primary sources that the US Senate had – all of these terrible and horrific brutal torture methods, it was under severe pressure. We were investigating our own governments in that context in a very fragile way, but we have been vindicated, because many of the same conclusions were reached in this Parliament. That was a very difficult thing for us to do.
What conclusions did we come up with? We came up with what John McCain said. He was a Republican, a man who had been tortured, and someone who understood the difference between interrogation and brutal torture. What he said was that it was legally and morally wrong. But he also said that it brought no new information in the fight against terrorism. These are people who are not soft on terrorism. These are people who understand the qualitative difference between interrogation and torture, and the qualitative difference between having no information and bad information. That was John McCain, and that is why people are quoting him today.
So let us understand that we were vindicated in our enquiry. This is not the end of the road. We have people languishing in Guantánamo Bay today who should be free, like Shaker Aamer. These are people whom our governments are requesting to be freed, who have been tortured and who have families, but who are actually languishing in prison. The story is not finished. It has only begun. These are our citizens – EU citizens. They are languishing in prison and they have been tortured repeatedly. We want them back and we should be representing them."@en1
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