{"id":458,"date":"2018-01-13T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/?p=458"},"modified":"2019-01-16T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:34:18","slug":"letters-to-nc-officials-needed-to-support-first-state-level-inquiry-into-u-s-torture-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/2018\/01\/13\/letters-to-nc-officials-needed-to-support-first-state-level-inquiry-into-u-s-torture-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to NC officials needed to support first state-level inquiry into U.S. torture program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 2017, the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture held ground-breaking public hearings on our state&#8217;s role in the post-9\/11 U.S. torture program.<\/p>\n<p>To view the testimony, go to www.nccit.org.<\/p>\n<p>Although they were invited, neither Governor Cooper nor Attorney General Stein testified or sent a representative to the hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Write to Gov. Cooper and AG Stein, encouraging them to support the inquiry of the NCCIT. Only by knowing the full truth about our state&#8217;s involvement in torture can we take steps to right the wrong. Our public officials should get on the right side of history!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a call for letters to the Governor and the Attorney General, and a sample letter with talking points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Call-for-letters-to-Cooper-Stein_Jan.-2018.docx\">Call for letters to Cooper &amp; Stein_Jan. 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 2017, the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture held ground-breaking public hearings on our state&#8217;s role in the post-9\/11 U.S. torture program. To view the testimony, go to www.nccit.org. Although they were invited, neither Governor Cooper nor Attorney General Stein testified or sent a representative to the hearings&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}