Documents: Image of chained, diapered detainees worried Bush

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Documents: Image of chained, diapered detainees worried Bush

DEB RIECHMANN
June 16, 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly declassified documents offer more details about a detainee who died inside the secret prison network the CIA operated abroad after the Sept. 11 attacks and disclose that President George W. Bush was worried about the image of shackled detainees wearing adult diapers.

Among the 50 documents released was a heavily redacted memo in which then-CIA Director Porter Goss recounts a meeting with Bush on June 7, 2006. The only sentence left to read said: "The president was concerned about the image of a detainee, chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper and forced to go to the bathroom on themselves."

Human rights advocates said Wednesday that this week's release of the documents — many footnoted in the 2014 Senate report on the torture of detainees — depict the human suffering associated with the CIA's enhanced interrogation program, which President Barack Obama said did significant damage to America's standing in the world.

"A lot of these details haven't been released before and I think they kind of underscore the depravity of the program," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union. "You read these documents and you cannot help come away with and understand the grotesqueness of the methods they were using.

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[marble falls]

1. This stuff just does not lose its ability to shock and outrage even as the pile of evidence just...

keeps growing and growing.

W was worried by the images? Only proves it is possible to literally gag a maggot. Also shows someone does have worries about his everlasting soul.

[democrank]

2. Bush was worried about the images?

He should have been worried about the depravity he approved.

[Jerry442]

4. I hope Bush still wakes up every morning worried about being tried. NT

[zentrum]

14. No, he wakes up every morning worried about being tired.

It's hard to paint, for your new hobby, if you're not well rested.

Meantime, Rumsfield lives in the mansion he bought after 2008. It's called "Misery House" because it's known historically, as being the place where slaves were treated particularly cruelly. Rummy enjoys the vibes of the place.

[olddad56]

18. He wasn't worried, he was excited thinking about adult males running around in diapers.

one of his many fantasies

[OnyxCollie]

3. At least he wasn't worried about being prosecuted. nt

[Solly Mack]

5. Can't spell impunity without unity.

[fasttense]

8. Well said. n/t

[Feeling the Bern]

6. I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval system they've got at Heath Row

[fasttense]

7. And NO One is worried about prosecuting these torturers?

Impeachment was off the table and Obama' s administration never brought charges.

Hiding your head in the sand and allowing criminals to go free does Not hide the pictures or make the facts less palatable.

[Botany]

9. Well, w that is one of the reasons we now have ISIS

mission accomplished

[Dustlawyer]

10. Too bad the videos were destroyed so we could use them to never have torture again!

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Worried? Might be nascent conscience on his part

in life, if you wouldn't want it happening to you,
don't do it to others

[elehhhhna]

16. Redaction says he was worried about being caught jerking off to those pics and videos.

[tanyev]

12. But Cheney was OK with them, I'll wager.

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. He didn't give a shit

[Javaman]

13. "The president* was concerned about the image of a detainee, chained to the ceiling,

clothed in a diaper and forced to go to the bathroom on themselves."

and the redacted next line read, "if this gets out, it will make me* look bad!"

[Dont call me Shirley]

17. W was worried about the image, not the torture.

[Octafish]

19. War criminal should be worried.

No statute of limitation. Poppy should be worried too, but, you know.