Gina Haspel, President Trump’s choice for the CIA’s number two position, was more deeply involved in the torture of Abu Zubaydah than has been publicly understood, according to newly available records and accounts by participants.
Among these were cables about the torture of Abu Zubaydah, revealing he was waterboarded 83 different times in a single month, and kept in a small box to small for him to sit up in for hours on end to induce pain.
(REPORT) --- Despite intense efforts to keep most of the details of their use of torture secret over recent years, the CIA’s most recent release of documents included several which shed new light on the practice of torture, as well as underscoring an intense internal debate within the agency about the policy. Among these were
Despite all we know about the inefficacy of waterboarding and the fact that it amounts to torture, some politicians still deny reality. Unsurprisingly, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would bring back waterboarding and “a hell of a lot worse.”
The 9-11 attacks provided an excuse for the Bush/Cheney cabal to implement many violations of international law, human rights and civil liberties. While the Orwellian ‘Patriot Act’ was rushed into law by an unhinged Congress–fueling the growth of a massive surveillance state–a new Authorization for Use of Military Force was granted to the executive
