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kpete

(71,954 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:26 AM Sep 2012

Looks like way more than 3 people were waterboarded by Bush/Cheney

Looks like way more than 3 people were waterboarded by Bush/Cheney

For many years, Bush administration officials have said that the CIA waterboarded only three terror suspects. Despite nearly endless revelations and investigations about the U.S.'s treatment of detainees, there has never been evidence contradicting those claims. But that changed earlier this month.

Human Rights Watch recently released a report detailing the accounts of 14 Libyan men who claim they were detained and, in some cases, subject to harsh interrogations by the U.S. before being transferred back to Libyan prisons, where they also faced abuse.

One man, Mohammed Al-Shoreoiya, provided a detailed account of being waterboarded "many times" while in U.S. custody in an Afghan prison between 2003 and 2004. Another man described a similar form of water torture, conducted without a board.

None of the men's accounts could be confirmed, but as the New York Times noted, the detainees did not seek out Human Rights Watch, and their descriptions of their treatment, including waterboarding, are consistent with CIA procedural documents that have been made public. ...Pro Publica

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-bush-administrations-oft-repeated-and-now-challenged-waterboarding-clai
http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2012/09/looks-like-way-more-that-3-people-were-waterboarded-by-bushcheney.html

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Looks like way more than 3 people were waterboarded by Bush/Cheney (Original Post) kpete Sep 2012 OP
So when will this end up in the Dungeon? OnyxCollie Sep 2012 #1
 

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)
1. So when will this end up in the Dungeon?
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:50 AM
Sep 2012

According to the legal-rational authorities, there is nothing that can be admitted that would stand up in court. As a result, no serious investigations, no prosecutions, nothing.

File this alongside the 9/11 Truther claims; unfounded rumors, wild speculation, and conspiracy theories.

These things did not happen.

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