CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured

Classified pictures showing CIA captives bruised, blindfolded and bound raise new questions about US’s willingness to use ‘sexual humiliation’ on suspects

Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman

Monday 28 March 2016 07.44 EDT

The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal.

A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”.

The naked imagery of CIA captives raises new questions about the seeming willingness of the US to use what one medical and human rights expert called “sexual humiliation” in its post-9/11 captivity of terrorism suspects. Some human rights campaigners described the act of naked photography on unwilling detainees as a potential war crime.

Unlike video evidence of CIA torture at its undocumented “black site” prisons that were destroyed in 2005 by a senior official, the CIA is said to retain the photographs.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/cia-photographed-naked-detainees

[choie]

1. Why Bring this up?

We're looking forward, not back - right? No accountable needed!

[DocMac]

5. Because animals. nt

[Betty Karlson]

8. That is certainly the prevailing sentiment among the establishment.

"It's all right as long as we do it => OK, maybe there are some loose ends but it's to late to do anything about them => yeah, OK, it was wrong, but now we must look forward => Are you still going on about that subject? Don't you know we have { this year's incarnation of the Anti-Christ } to fear?"

[blackspade]

2. These assholes sould be buried under the jail.

There are some sick fucks working for the CIA.

[noretreatnosurrender]

3. Great piece by Trevor Timm

It's a national disgrace that the people who created the torture regime and the people who supported it's work have not been held accountable for their crimes.

Obama praised Argentina for taking on its past. "Confronting crimes committed by your own leaders, by your own people - that can be divisive and frustrating, but it is essential to moving forward," he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3507700/Obama-honor-Argentinas-Dirty-War-victims-coup-anniversary.html

I agree with you, Mr. President which is why I'm so saddened and angry that you didn't confront the crimes committed by the previous administration to yours. Until that is done we can't move forward as a nation.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. Thanks Obama!

[FairWinds]

6. Great point Mr/Ms "noretreatnosurrender"

But FYI for all . .

It seems to becoming forgotten, but the US military torture was worse, and
more widespread.

Torture was by no means only done by the CIA.

Abu Ghraib, where a number of Daesh leaders met, was run by the US Army.

Veterans For Peace will not forget.

[noretreatnosurrender]

10. Agree

It was very widespread.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[AxionExcel]

9. Republican Family "values"

[raging moderate]

11. It is not the victims, but the perpetrators of atrocities, who lose their honor.

These pictures cover our nation with shame. How horrible to see the uniform of my United States of America on a set of vicious monsters! I cannot even look at those poor prisoners! And again and again, I remind myself that these are not the sort of pictures one would take to show one's family or reminisce over. Again and again, I ask myself, who were the intended recipients of these pictures? For whom did these sadists take these pictures to prove that they had done what they had been sent to do? Who directed that these atrocities should be committed? Just how high in our government did the crypto-Nazi rank?

[riderinthestorm]

12. Move on! Nothing to see here. No charges necessary