legislating CIA interrogation - The Torture Video story

international | crime and justice | other press Friday December 07, 2007 17:27 by staring at goats

The New York Times has run a story which immediately has been taken up globally on the destruction of video tapes by the CIA of an interrogation despite those tapes being potential evidence in Congressional inquiry, hearings or other such grand jury activity.

Thus, we see the issue of torture, CIA use of extreme interrogation techinques & the Bush regime allowance of said placed on the table of forthcoming review of that agency & the other 15 intelligence services of the USA during the next presidency.

But for the moment it's just a story about "Al Qaeda" suspect Abu Zubaydah being subjected to the notorious water boarding data extraction sicko kicks of the CIA in 2002.

this is the original story on the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/washington/07intel.ht...login

here is coverage from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7132000.stm

It's interesting to see the CIA use the lascitute on torture which the Bush / Cheney regime afforded it not only in its own house - but also in its numerous other named or dark facilities (the bread & butter of our own torture rendition flight pilots) & its subcontracted out-house nastiness ( in Romania, Bylerussia, Poland just to name a few & go on sue me why don't you?) are holding on to the old tried & untrustworthy methods of wrapping people's heads in towels to the point of suffocation & then forcing between ten and fifteen litres of water into their stomach. It's interesting, because it doesn't really always work, I don't know about you, but half-drowned people aren't that articulate or accurate on the memory front & have a nasty habit of just developing suicidal tendencies & breathing in the water after the umpteenth session - but it's intersting because it almost gives us the impression that they're not using drugs or that nifty plastic thing that goes in your aural canal while you're optic cerebral cortex has gone beyond cognitive liberty.

or maybe they are.
go ask them.