While it comes nearly three months too late to have any bearing on CIA Director Gina Haspel’s confirmation vote, a series of newly declassified cables are offering unprecedented insight into the specifics of torture carried out at the CIA black site Haspel was running.
The documents are available at the National Security Archive. They are heavily redacted, but it is speculated that they may have even been written by Haspel herself, and described the extended use of violence against detainees.
The documents involve a lot of flowery language, praising the “catlike” way interrogators entered the room before torturing suspects, and promising to make one of them suffer “in ways he never thought possible.”
Specifics of the CIA torture program have largely been withheld from the public, despite supposedly having ended years ago. Haspel’s role in that torture made her confirmation as CIA Director particularly controv4ersial, especially since President Trump has publicly espoused the merits of torture on several occasions.
Trump may have praised torture, but under Obama and Bush it was US foreign policy.
Here is the record.
On taking office in 2009, President Obama issued an executive order requiring all government employees, including the CIA, to conduct interrogations according to the Army Field Manual, which prohibits torture.
In June 2015 the US Senate codified Obama’s ban, passing an amendment to the annual defense policy bill that prevents any US government employee from using torture during the interrogation of prisoners.
By which fact was torture legal or policy under Obama’s presidency? The two facts above fly into the face of your contention.
Drone bombing wedding parties or torture what difference does it make. You’re not actually defending our Nobel peace prize winning president are you?
Americans are the problem Nobody pays attention to your fake president vote…only the people you kill. You are all bad
Sadly your ignorance rules the world. As if all Russians Germans Greeks etc. stand behind their governments actions.
Right, but we do claim to have a government elected by the American people. So we are complicit.
Who claims? Not me. I am not complicit in the evil actions of the country where I reside. Maybe you are.
No. Just one issue: Libya. There is more.
Where does “enhanced interrogation procedures” come into play?
Here is the record.
On taking office in 2009, President Obama issued an executive order requiring all government employees, including the CIA, to conduct interrogations according to the Army Field Manual, which prohibits torture.
In June 2015 the US Senate codified Obama’s ban, passing an amendment to the annual defense policy bill that prevents any US government employee from using torture during the interrogation of prisoners.
By which fact was torture legal or policy under Obama’s presidency? The two facts above fly into the face of your contention.
This is what America is.
You have not read 1984 ??? We will make it legal by redefining words.
A gal’s got to get her kicks.
The real question is who chooses her dresses?
The CIA is the enemy of us all..