{"id":195397,"date":"2008-07-11T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/11\/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-reported-torture-by-us-forces\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:25:00","slug":"international-committee-of-the-red-cross-reported-torture-by-us-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/11\/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-reported-torture-by-us-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"International Committee of the Red Cross Reported Torture by US Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/11\/washington\/11detain.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">ICRC specifically warned members of the military and the Bush administration that they were engaging in war crimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes<\/span>, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The book says that the International Committee of the Red Cross declared in the report, given to the C.I.A. last year, that the methods used on Abu Zubaydah, the first major Qaeda figure the United States captured, were \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">categorically<\/span>\u201d torture, which is illegal under both American and international law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.Citing unnamed \u201csources familiar with the report,\u201d Ms. Mayer wrote that the Red Cross document \u201cwarned that the abuse constituted war crimes, placing the h<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ighest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted<\/span>.\u201d Red Cross representatives were not permitted access to the secret prisons where the C.I.A. conducted interrogations, but were permitted to interview Abu Zubaydah and other high-level detainees in late 2006, after they were moved to the military detention center in Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The book says the C.I.A. shared the report, which Ms. Mayer first described last year in less detail in The New Yorker, with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">President Bush<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really hope that there is a prosecutor in The Hague getting his ducks in a row over this case now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that the ICRC specifically warned members of the military and the Bush administration that they were engaging in war crimes: Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195397"}],"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=195397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}