CIA not commenting on running secret terror jails

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I'm so going to get pummeled for this but...

Better pros in a black-ops environment (grown-ups who understand the moral cost of their actions, and who are more interested in verifiable and actionable intel than bloody confessions) than inexperienced, unprepared, hick GIs at Abu Ghraib.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 3 November 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

The largest CIA prison in Afghanistan was code-named the Salt Pit. It was also the CIA's substation and was first housed in an old brick factory outside Kabul. In November 2002, an inexperienced CIA case officer allegedly ordered guards to strip naked an uncooperative young detainee, chain him to the concrete floor and leave him there overnight without blankets. He froze to death, according to four U.S. government officials. The CIA officer has not been charged in the death.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html

"pros"

mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 3 November 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost And torture also produces highly dubious "intelligence." People will say just about anything to make it stop. Also, I would be slightly disturbed that people are being trained to become "pros," particularly as the US is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and such actions only undermine any claims to be "civilised."

salexander / sofia (salexander), Thursday, 3 November 2005 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, I would be slightly disturbed that people are being trained to become "pros,"

Ever hear of the

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 3 November 2005 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

damn.

Ever hear of the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)?

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 3 November 2005 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not surprised by that; I knew that it happened in other countries and probably in most/all secret services. Didn't quite a few Nazis flee to South America and help train people in torture techniques?

salexander / sofia (salexander), Thursday, 3 November 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, it's not surprising and I think it's more than slightly disturbing.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 3 November 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

That might have been SARCASM! I volunteer with Amnesty International and hear lots of horror stories all the time.

salexander / sofia (salexander), Thursday, 3 November 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been researching trying to find out about the alleged CIA - Nazi connection at the end of WWII. There's a lot of interesting stories on the web, but hardly any of them are based on credible references. What's not questionable is that the CIA worked closely with Reinhard Gehlen, a top Nazi spy, and his organization up until the 1960s. No telling what they learned from those goons. Oh wait, they are all goons. Anyone got any more credible information on this story?

viborgu, Thursday, 3 November 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link

These are meant to be good analytical books:

# Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War (Christopher Simpson)

# U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis (Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, Robert Wolfe)

There don't seem to be any doubts that the Allies did use and employ Nazis after WWII, much like they used evidence from Nazi "experimentations."

salexander / sofia (salexander), Thursday, 3 November 2005 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link

walter, yes -- at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Noriega, Papa Doc Duvalier, and almost every Latin American dictator you can name got their training there.

It's kind of hard to believe.

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Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 November 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

mookieproof, I stand corrected and appalled.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 3 November 2005 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, in his new book, describes being summoned to a White House meeting and cussed out by President Obama’s chief of staff after he agreed to give the Senate intelligence committee access to documents chronicling the agency’s use of torture during the Bush administration.

“The president wants to know who the fuck authorized this release to the committees,” Rahm Emanuel, who served as Obama’s chief of staff and enforcer in 2009 and 2010, is quoted as saying while slamming the table for emphasis....

This new account from Panetta has particular relevance today, said Katherine Hawkins, national security fellow at pro-transparency group Open the Government.

“It seems that the White House’s and Director Brennan’s opposition to Senate Intelligence Committee oversight over the torture program began sooner than we knew,” she wrote in an email. “This explains why, over six months after the President promised to support release of the torture report, the White House and CIA are still insisting on unacceptable redactions. It also explains why there have been no consequences for Brennan’s role in the unlawful search of Senate computers.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/07/panetta-says-rahm-emanuel-cussed-cooperating-senate-torture-inquiry/

this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

In response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Central Intelligence Agency today released over 50 documents detailing the agency’s torture and rendition program under the Bush administration....

"These newly declassified records add new detail to the public record of the CIA's torture program and underscore the cruelty of the methods the agency used in its secret, overseas black sites," said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director. "It bears emphasis that these records document grave crimes for which no senior official has been held accountable." The documents include new records about the death of Gul Rahman, who died at a CIA secret prison in Afghanistan in 2002. The CIA "Death Report" on Rahman released today details the horrific conditions he was subjected to:

"Often, prisoners who possess significant or imminent threat information are stripped to their diapers during interrogation and placed back into their cells wearing only diapers. This is done solely to humiliate the prisoner for interrogation purposes. When the prisoner soils a diaper, they are changed by the guards. Sometimes the guards run out of diapers and the prisoners are placed back in their cells in a handcrafted diaper secured by duct tape. If the guards don't have any available diapers, the prisoners are rendered to their cell nude.

"Rahman froze to death in his cell, naked from the waist down. The ACLU represents Rahman's family in a lawsuit against the two CIA-contracted psychologists who designed and implemented the torture program, James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen.

https://www.aclu.org/news/cia-releases-dozens-torture-documents-response-aclu-lawsuit

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a45845/cia-torture-documents/

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link

great job "moving forward" and not prosecuting these fucks, Obama

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link

Much of Congress with their head in the sand too on this, while there's others who sadly endorse such behavior and think its a good thing

curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link


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