New Yorker: CIA Tactics Amount To Torture

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Source: CBS News

Magazine: The CIA Used Techniques Equivalent To Torture While Interrogating 9/11 Mastermind

(CBS) The Central Intelligence Agency used "enhanced interrogation techniques" synonymous with torture while interrogating September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, according to a New Yorker article that appears on newsstands Monday.

After Mohammed's capture in Pakistan in 2003, the CIA detained him at one of several secret overseas prisons, known as "black sites," and subjected him to unusually harsh treatment, according to the article.

It was under these interrogation methods that Mohammed confessed to 31 criminal plots, including the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was captured in 2002 in Pakistan and beheaded, Jane Mayer reports in the New Yorker.

Mohammed's interrogation was part of a fine-tuned CIA protocol of psychological coercion against al Qaeda figures, according to sources familiar with an International Red Cross report, Mayer writes.

"The Red Cross went in and got to interview these people for the first time," said Mayer on the CBS Evening News. "What these people described was hanging from the ceilings by their arms and being water-boarded, partially drowned, put on leashes and knocked into walls and basically deprived of all kinds of sensory imagery for years."


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/05/eveningnews/main3135427.shtml

[Kagemusha]

1. I'm saddened and dismayed that...

...in light of what happened this weekend in Congress, I can't even summon the energy to bother to be outraged by this. That and it's confirming what every thinking person should have considered fact literally years ago. Because it's not like anyone's going to do anything about it. ...That would threaten national security.

[Up2Late]

2. She was interviewed on NPR today too...

...here's the link: <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12542879>