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| New Details on C.I.A. Prisoner Abuse |
| By nytimes.com |
| Published: 08/24/2009 |
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WASHINGTON — A Central Intelligence Agency inspector general’s report set to be released Monday provides new details about abuses that took place inside the agency’s secret prisons, including details of how C.I.A. officers carried out mock executions and threatened at least one prisoner with a gun and a power drill. C.I.A. jailers at different times held the handgun and the drill close to the detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, threatening to harm him if he did not cooperate with his interrogators, a government official familiar with the contents of the report said. Mr. Nashiri, who was implicated in the bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole in 2000, was one of two C.I.A. detainees whose interrogation sessions were videotaped — tapes that were destroyed by C.I.A. officers in 2005. It is unclear whether the threats with the gun and the power drill were documented on the tapes. In a separate episode detailed in the report — completed in 2004 by the inspector general, John L. Helgerson, but emerging now after a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union forced its release — C.I.A. officers fired a gunshot in a room next to a detainee, leading the prisoner to believe that a second detainee had been killed. Read More. |
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I am a future employee entering into corrections. Im now in school getting my assoicates in Criminal Justice. Based on the article i have read i dont commend the agent for what he/she did, but i wouldnt punish him/her for what was done niether. Think about it, many lives was saved he/she did what was absolutely neccessary to save many lives so why punish him/her. If he/she acted like they didnt care about the human life (what then). Me personally to the agent or agents have my deepest congradualation on a job well done its about time some body has gotten on their job and has done the right thing doing it. Please dont punish him/her it was only a act of judgement to protect innocent lives, so if thats a reason to punish then what would be a way to congrad. on a job well done.