teleSUR English | 6/16/2016
The CIA was well aware of the illegality of its torture tactics in 2002, when facilities were understaffed and officers conducting the torture were untrained, but the program would “continue as long as (it would) elicit information,” according to newly-released redacted documents.
The 50 documents were published Tuesday after a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency by the ACLU and Vice News and reveal the “enhanced interrogation tactics” used against high-profile detainees like Gul Rahman, who froze to death in a black site Afghan prison in 2002, and Abu Zubaydah, whose detention was used as a torture pilot program. The three facilities described were closed two years later “for operational security reasons,” states one document.
The tactics used on Zabuydah, the document states, would “normally would appear to be prohibited under the provisions” of the Torture Act, but a draft letter to the Justice Department pled for “formal declination of prosecution.”
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Naomi Cohen | journalist 