New CIA documents promulgated: what is known about the torture program

Gina Haspel, who was promoted to the post of head of the CIA by President Donald Trump, faced problems in the Senate because of her participation in the torture program after the September 11 attacks on 2001.

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Edition BuzzFeed analyzed about 300 pages of recently declassified documents of the CIA, in order to understand what this program represented.

Documents show that the organizer of the September 11 attacks lied to the investigation and forged documents about allegedly preparing new threats in order to avoid further torture. Another detainee provided key information about the attacks before being subjected to harsh interrogation techniques, such as imitating drowning, and that the investigators continued to torture him even after they realized that he most likely had no other useful information.

Published dThe CIA documents are largely redacted and do not mention Haspel by name, but they largely cover the years of the torture program immediately following the 11/XNUMX attacks, during which time Haspel worked for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, which oversaw the program. torture.

The documents reveal the torture that took place in 2003 year and carried out over the alleged organizer of the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, as well as Abu Zubayda, who was held in a special prison in Thailand in 2002 year. Khaspel managed this special prison for a short period of time, she became its head a couple of months after Abu Zubaydah's torture ended.

She took control of the prison in October 2002 of the year, shortly before another detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged organizer of the bombing USS Colewas tortured there.

According to a source familiar with what Haspel told senators in closed sessions about her appointment as head of the CIA, “it was not until October 2002 of the year that she was informed about some of the more sensitive anti-terrorism agencies and the agency’s activities. Contrary to some descriptions in the press, she did not develop these events and did not lobby for their adoption. ”

Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri’s torture sessions were videotaped, there are about ten such videos made from April to December 2002, it was Haspel who was in favor of destroying these videotapes and developed a solution to resolve them.

Documents containing detailed stories of several torture of prisoners and other data about the program were obtained BuzzFeed News in response to a request, according to the Freedom of Information Act, as well as a lawsuit filed after the CIA does not want to comply with this law.

Most Haspel's career information remains a mystery. Several Democratic senators in the Senate Intelligence Committee called on the CIA to declassify information about the role of Haspel in "the erroneous torture program, as well as a number of other alarming facts from her biography." Members of the committee have access to classified material from the Haspel biography, most of which the CIA delivered to Capitol Hill 7 in May.

In response to May 4's criticism, Haspel attempted to withdraw her candidacy for the post of head of the CIA.

But President Donald Trump defended her, saying that it is impossible to criticize a person for being “too harsh with terrorists”.

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