More than 20 years after the September 11 attacks, these cases are still pending for the sole reason that the CIA carried out a brutal and patently illegal torture program that resulted in confessions that cannot be used against the defendants in a court of law, military or otherwise. The CIA’s torture program was born...
Tag: Guantanamo
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Biden Team Rejects Evidence Tainted by CIA Torture
Rather than trying to parse various statements made when the petitioner was held in black sites, the government brief concludes as a blanket rule that statements made “while he was in CIA custody” will be excluded. That’s the right answer as a matter of law and policy. (Because the government asks the court not to...
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Fact Check: CIA Director Gina Haspel Was Not Arrested, Injured or Found Dead
Reuters debunks a popular social media fantasy about CIA director Gina Haspel. A November 29 Facebook post (flagged as bogus by Facebook) claimed that five special forces troops and a CIA official were killed in the raid and Haspel was flown to Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp (GITMO) where she was treated and “received a tribunal...
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Gitmo Testimony Sheds Light on $81 Million CIA Contract for Waterboarding Duo
The continuing testimony of James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, architects of the CIA’s torture program, at a military tribunal in Guantanamo sheds new light on the business side of “enhanced interrogation.” The duo make an appearance in their private jet in The Report, the movie sabout the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the CIA torture...
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Scottish Doctor Became the ‘Godfather of Modern Torture’ Working in Secret Wing Funded by CIA
Cameron is one of the godfathers of modern torture, whose work has been utilised in places like Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Northern Ireland, the Philippines and Chile, to name just a few. In the 1950s, Cameron, who was working in the United States and Canada, was funded by the CIA to develop and research sensory deprivation...
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