World-News

Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

09/01/09

In response to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, ‘The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union (one of dozens of documents comprising an unprecedented 130,000 previously secret pages, including) a detailed official description of the CIA’s interrogation program.’ Referring to a heavily redacted December 2004 report (originally commissioned by CIA director George Tenet) detailing torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, it ‘describes the use of abusive interrogation techniques including forced nudity, sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation and stress positions.’ Far worse ones were understated or redacted entirely...

http://tinyurl.com/mjyu9a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman