The U.S. weekly newsmagazine Newsweek has an article on its website by Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff that provides some information from the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general's report on the agency's use of "enhanced interrogation". It turns out that the CIA use certain techniques that may not have been approved in the White House legal memos, such as mock execution. See: http://www.newsweek.com/id/213188
Quoting from the article: |According to two sources-one who has read a draft of the |paper and one who was briefed on it-the report describes |how one detainee, suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim |al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during |the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who |like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while |discussing sensitive information, Nashiri's interrogators brandished |the gun in an effort to convince him that he was going to be shot. |Interrogators also turned on a power drill and held it near him. |"The purpose was to scare him into giving [information] up," said |one of the sources. A federal law banning the use of torture |expressly forbids threatening a detainee with "imminent death." But perhaps even more disturbing is the following: |Before leaving office, Bush administration officials confirmed |that Nashiri was one of three CIA detainees subjected to waterboarding. |They also acknowledged that Nashiri was one of two al Qaeda |detainees whose detentions and interrogations were documented |at length in CIA videotapes. But senior officials of the agency's |undercover operations branch, the National Clandestine Service, |ordered that the tapes be destroyed, an action which has been |under investigation for over a year by a federal prosecutor. The real question is why has the investigation been going on for a year? -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
