Disturbing New Photos of CIA Torture
By Christopher R Rice
NSFW: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Many of the images are explicit and gruesome, depicting nudity, degradation, simulated sex acts and guards posing with decaying corpses. Viewer discretion is advised.
Doctors and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, AFP reports.
Of the 119 known detainees, the CIA wrongfully held at least 26 people (22 percent) due to bad intelligence. Throughout the program, the CIA repeatedly underreported the number of people it detained. It claimed it had detained “fewer than 100 people,” while records indicate the agency detained 119. One of the wrongfully held was an “intellectually challenged” man, Nazir Ali. His taped interrogation was used as leverage to get a family member to provide information.
Secret prisons, renditions, and enhanced interrogations are characteristic of police states, not constitutional republics.
Such methods might gain wider approval, the lawyers figured, if they were proved to have saved lives.
“A policy decision must be made with regard to US use of torture,” CIA lawyers wrote in November 2001, in a previously undisclosed memo titled “Hostile Interrogations: Legal Considerations for CIA Officers.”
The lawyers argued that “states may be very unwilling to call the US to task for torture when it resulted in saving thousands of lives.”
[READ: Here Is the CIA Torture Report]
Related article: Former military interrogator Matthew Alexander refutes Dick Cheney's claim that torture saved American lives.
http://www.thenation.com/article/ex-interrogator-torture-creates-terrorists/
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