Wala noted that, before the September 11 terrorist attacks, the USA recognized that waterboarding was a form of torture because it had prosecuted Japanese soldiers in World War II for waterboarding and other forms of water torture. Rand Paul has already said he would oppose both Mr. Pompeo and his replacement at the CIA, Gina Haspel, who has connections to enhanced interrogation techniques for terrorist suspects used in wake of September 11.
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Pompeo is “close to the president”, Graham said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
Writ large, Donald Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency is a victory for torturers and a defeat for women.
The CIA didn’t learn of any planned attack in the USA; it did become confident that Zubaydah wasn’t holding back anything about one. I mention this only because it technically qualifies as waterboarding, since the intruders, going by their reaction, seemed to believe they were going to drown. In a waterboarding session, the person is strapped flat on a board tilted so the feet are elevated higher than the head. All avoided using the T-word.
The Thai site was reportedly established in haste after the arrest of Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan in March 2002. A third referred to her “managing a detention facility”.
On Haspel, Paul said, “What America stands for is not torture”. “Everybody knew that torture didn’t work”.
Haspel played a large role in the CIA’s secret torture program.
The ProPublica story was published initially in February 2017, shortly after Trump named Haspel, a veteran CIA officer, the agency’s deputy director. She’s earned the right to be there.
She would have known in intimate detail.
“Cramped confinement” means stuffing an adult male into a box 30 inches tall, 30 inches wide and 21 inches deep.
“Interrogation techniques such as slaps and “wallings” (slamming detainees against a wall) were used in combination, frequently concurrent with sleep deprivation and nudity”, stated a United States senate report in 2014.
For most of 2002, Abu Zubaydah was the only prisoner at Cat’s Eye. “We hope they’ll not be subjected to undue delay”. “If subject dies, we plan on seeking [redacted] assistance for cremation of the subject”.
For its part, regarding this fake news about Haspel, Hot Air’s John Sexton discovered that the far-left New York Times appears to have done a stealth-retraction/non-retraction. Perhaps he will even be disappointed if it transpires that Gina Haspel wasn’t quite the avid torturer she was alleged to have been in earlier reports.
The senate report said interrogators waterboarded Abu Zubaydah until he, “became completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth”. “In any case, there was no evidence the waterboard produced time perishable information that would have been unobtainable”. Haspel still oversaw torture. 3.
“Until they’ve proved that they know anything about the world, I think they probably just ought to be quiet”, Paul said. But like most normal people, I totally endorse the use of extreme torture on innocent people who may or may not be terrorists.
It fell to Paul to make the obvious observation that appears to have eluded nearly everyone else in official Washington: “This has been historically a question we’ve asked in every war: Is there a point at which soldiers say “no”?”
“Senator Paul’s claims today about Gina Haspel are not only inaccurate, but contradicted by the very source materials he relied on”. She has worked more than 30 years in the agency. She will have some hurdles to overcome.
Why isn’t she fit for the job, in your view? “Most importantly, she has the admiration and respect of the workforce”. I’m sorry, but this is really bothering me that this story remain untouched until now. He is, to date, the only USA official jailed in relation to Bush’s torture program. After a few years, as opposition to the torture program grew, courts and congressional committees began to investigate.
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My father doesn’t need torture explained to him.
