New Docs Reveal Grim Details Of CIA Torture Program, Internal Debate Over Ethics

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.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

(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 cables about the

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Bin-Laden Aide Was Going to Cooperate And Give Intel Until The CIA Tortured Him

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.”

Justin Gardner
By Justin Gardner
A composite showing some of the torture images from US military, among 198 photographs released in February. Photograph: Department of Defense

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

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