Gina Haspel was confirmed by the Senate to be director of the CIA on May 17th . But the world never got to see the memos that she wrote and authorized about the brutal distortion of Al Qaeda distrust at a CIA black site that she supervise in Thailand in 2002 . Until now .
TheNational Security Archivefiled a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) request for the cables on April 16 , 2018 , after the world learned that President Trump had name Gina Haspel for the top job at the CIA . The Archive only discover about the cables from a footnote in the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report , which declassified in 2014 . The Archive request expedited processing for the FOIA request , a special provision of the FOIA police meant for when documents are clearly in the public interestingness . Expedited processing was denied and Haspel was confirmed by the Senate before they could be unblock .
The National Security Archive charge a lawsuit and deliver the goods , leading to today ’s button of the documents from 2002 . And despite being intemperately edit , they ’re pretty shocking , both for their explicit descriptions of torture , and their sometimes grotesquely poetic language to describe the scene .
One line describe how one inquisitor , under Gina Haspel ’s command , “ strode , catlike , into the well - lit confines of the cell at 0902 hour [ redacted ] , deftly removed the case ’s bleak hood with a swipe , paused , and in a deep , measured voice said that subject – having ‘ calmed down ’ after his ( sleuth ) run - in with his hulking , heavily muscle guards the old twenty-four hour period – should unveil what subject had done to vex his guard to the point of furore . ”
It only gets weirder and more horrific from there , detailing the way that detainees were torment with waterboarding ( false drowning ) , and other method of forcible abuse . Haspel oversaw thedestruction of 92 videotapesof anguish in 2005 because the agency look that blowback from the tapes being destroy would be less catastrophic than the tape measure being seen by the populace .
Another cable explains that “ inquisitor told subject that he was fail back into the big corner , and that they were hold up to babble again about Walid and other thing . topic was told that he suffered unnecessarily today because he did n’t provide complete response up front . ”
you’re able to translate the rest of the declassify cables about torture pull by the CIA over at theNational Security Archive .
[ National Security Archive ]
Donald Trumppresident trump
Daily Newsletter
Get the good tech , science , and culture word in your inbox day by day .
intelligence from the future , deliver to your present .
You May Also Like
