Guantanamo detainees say historic interrogation was ‘torture,’ despite CIA psychologist’s denial

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“Whilst the Americans may call these enhanced interrogation techniques, I prefer to be honest about what I suffered. It was torture, pure and simple.”

James Mitchell, one of two psychologists who helped devise the CIA's interrogation program after the 2001 terrorist attacks, in Hollywood, Fla., July 5, 2017. Mitchell will be the first witness to describe the torture of detainees in the secret prisons in the trial of the men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks.

“Mitchell testified that he abided by guidance to ‘go right up to the line of what was legal, put their toes on it and lean forward.’ The doctors were responsible to revive the men if dying,” Xenakis said. Rabbani, an alleged ‘al-Qaida facilitator’ who has been held in Guantanamo without being charged with a crime since 2004, said he experienced “torture” in Afghanistan, where he was held before his transfer to Guantanamo.“I was hung from an iron shackle with my toes barely able to touch the ground,” he wrote in a 2008 letter to his attorney, Clive Stafford-Smith, excerpts of which were shared with ABC News.

 

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Britain in www, placed high ranking officers in nice old hotels or castles and BUGGED THE PLACE the hear them talking. Even went so far as to give them newspapers.

ABC Showing sympathy for the devil

So was killing over 3000 on 911 and the families that had to suffer from these animals!

Can’t do the time? Don’t do the crime.

Conspiring against America should not be a picnic to our enemies.

Well, at least the Obama Administration fixed the problem by just killing the terrorists by drone strikes. It’s quicker and easier than detaining these reprobates with the added bonus of no witnesses.

Don’t try to kill Americans then !!!!

So we should be better than what this article says we are, but it seem more of an option. This should be taken with a grain of salt as we still don't have all the facts.

Am I supposed to feel bad for terrorists?

Cry me a river.

I read Dr. Mitchell's book on the subject. Quite interesting & appalling at the same time. No wonder he claims to live in fear for his & his family's lives.

well it is not meant to be a holiday camp .

That’s how you get info,it’s a worldwide technique,it helps to keep all the American people safe so it’s ok you abc dummies

Who cares

Who cares what the detainees say about it? Ask any inmate and I'm sure they'll say they've been tortured just by being in jail.

Yes pure torture

Boo freaking hoo.

Poor poor terrorists 🤣

Fuck them.

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