{"id":188659,"date":"2010-08-17T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/17\/the-first-shoe-drops-on-torture\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T23:16:00","slug":"the-first-shoe-drops-on-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/17\/the-first-shoe-drops-on-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Shoe Drops on Torture\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the torture tapes that the CIA had destroyed on the watch of Porter Goss<\/span>, the most corrupt CIA chief ever?<\/p>\n

Well, some of the tapes missed the degausser<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The interrogation of Ramzi<\/span> Binalshibh<\/span>, a key figure in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was recorded several times while he was being questioned in Morocco by local intelligence officers, according to a U.S. official. The disclosure resolves a mystery over what are thought to be the only existing recordings from the CIA’s<\/span> secret detention program.<\/p>\n

The two videotapes and an audiotape do not show any use of what the CIA has called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the official said. Human rights groups have described the CIA’s<\/span> methods as torture.<\/p>\n

“The tapes, which were made and found years ago, show a guy sitting at a desk answering questions,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n

Still, the disclosure adds a new wrinkle to the public understanding of the documentation of the CIA’s<\/span> detention and interrogation program.<\/p>\n

The destruction of 92 videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation and confinement of senior al<\/span>–Qaeda<\/span> figures at CIA secret prisons around the world is the subject of a criminal probe. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., the former head of the directorate of operations at the agency, issued an order to destroy the recordings in November 2005 as the CIA’s<\/span> detention and interrogation program came under intense public and congressional scrutiny. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are likely more tapes out there, and I would hope that the good (i.e. not-torturer) CIA agents who know where they are will get them to people who will do something (Yes, I know, Obama already said no prosecutions) about this.<\/p>\n

Seeing as how one of the claims of the Binalshibh<\/span> defense team is that he’s got a screw loose, these tapes may go a long way towards settling that issue as well.<\/p>\n

The CIA claims that there was no torture<\/del> harsh interrogation techniques in the tapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the torture tapes that the CIA had destroyed on the watch of Porter Goss, the most corrupt CIA chief ever? Well, some of the tapes missed the degausser: The interrogation of Ramzi Binalshibh, a key figure in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was recorded several times while he was being questioned in Morocco by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1032,1102,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-intelligence","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}