For First Time in Public, a Detainee Describes Torture at CIA Black Sites

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32 points·jbegley··6 comments

"He also admitted to plotting a number of other crimes with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, notably by wearing a suicide vest in a failed effort in 2002 to assassinate the president of Pakistan at the time, Pervez Musharraf, a U.S. ally in the war on terrorism."

Wow. It turns out the guy being tortured confessed to a lot of crimes. What are the odds of that?

I find stories like this so frustrating because we in the public are seemingly powerless in response to them. If the allegations of torture are true, it's the kind of the CIA and/or White House officials should hang for. And yet, there will be no consequences for the criminals who ordered this torture and countless others like it. Infuriating.

> U.S. military officers were selected to serve on a jury [...] Unknown to the jurors, Mr. Khan and his lawyers reached a secret deal [...] his actual sentence could end as early as February and no later than February 2025

so that why have the court case at all?

Due process also involves a right to be heard, and the right of a society to hear the proceedings, testimony, and evidence. In this case, it puts some damning testimony on record that can be referenced in other cases, preventing the cia from abusing privileges of classification to hide excessive behaviors and crimes.

If you can call this kind of kangaroo court spectacle a “court case”.

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"The intelligence agency declined Thursday to comment on the descriptions offered in the hearing but noted that the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program ended in 2009."

Well, that's obviously fine then. Nothing to see here folks.

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