CIA Used Gun, Drill in Interrogation of Alleged Cole Mastermind »
Posted By Beau7890 3 months, 4 weeks ago in News
CIA interrogators used a handgun and an electric drill to try to frighten a captured al-Qaeda commander into giving up information, according to a long-concealed agency report due to be made public next week, former and current U.S. officials who have read the document said Friday.
The tactics -- which one official described Friday as a threatened execution -- were used on Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the CIA's inspector general's report on the agency's interrogation program. Nashiri, who was captured in November 2002 and held for four years in one of the CIA's "black site" prisons, ultimately became one of three al-Qaeda chieftains subjected to a form of simulated drowning known as waterboarding.
The report also says that a mock execution was staged in a room next to one terrorism suspect, according to Newsweek magazine, citing two sources for its information. The magazine was the first to publish details from the report, which it did on its Web site late Friday.
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Beau78903 months, 4 weeks ago
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Here's a link to the Newsweek report:
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epiphannyy3 months, 4 weeks ago
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We may think we're immune to all these things being held against us, but we're heading for a wake-up call I do believe. And Obama isn't doing nearly enough to reign this sort of thing in, even though that was one of his main platforms during the campaign. That, at least for me, was one of the cornerstones of his promised "change"......so far though, he's been disappointing on this front.
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NoWayMan3 months, 4 weeks ago
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IMO, whats most important in this story is the fact that all of these "enhanced interrogation" methods proved ineffective and didn't work.
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and those who sold out our values for the sake of their own fear, hatred and skewed sense of revenge (as opposed to justice) should be put in jail for a long, long time. -
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