New CIA Documents Reveal More Horrors of President Bush's Torture Program

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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/15/new-cia-documents-reveal-more-horrors-president-bushs-torture-program

Heavily redacted trove details death of detainees and draft letter requesting interrogators be protected from prosecution
by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

The heavily redacted trove of more than 50 documents was published in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the ACLU last year, which sought records referenced in the U.S. Senate's damning report on the CIA's program—commonly referred to as the torture report—released in December 2014.

"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," Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director, said Tuesday. "It bears emphasis that these records document grave crimes for which no senior official has been held accountable."

Among the cases outlined in the documents is that of 34-year-old Gul Rahman, who was detained by the CIA in 2002 on suspicion of being an al Qaeda operative and who froze to death in one of the agency's secret prisons in Afghanistan. During his captivity in November 2002, Rahman was beaten, doused with cold water, and left shackled in a cold cell, naked from the waist down.

The documents detail Rahman's apparent resistance to the torture, including "[remaining] steadfast in outright denials" and "[complaining] about the violation of his human rights."

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Go read the whole article. Every American should give this a good long ponder.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/15/new-cia-documents-reveal-more-horrors-president-bushs-torture-program

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1. From the comments:

andrewboston
11 hours ago

Actual Nazis are still being prosecuted for war crimes. One can only hope that on some distant day, the CIA USA version shall meet justice.
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Emphyrio
10 hours ago

Regarding Bush-era torture and its legacy in our nation (and world), lets never forget the legal position and counsel of the odious and depraved John Yoo who infamously wrote the opinion that it would be just fine - legal - to crush the testicles of a child to get the father to talk!

Yoo "served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration"

That Yoo is now astonishingly professor of law at UC Berkeley, still spewing his extremist messages, and not prosecuted for his part in defending/selling torture as US policy is an outrage!
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