CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
Source: Guardian
CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
Classified pictures showing CIA captives bruised, blindfolded and bound raise new questions about USs willingness to use sexual humiliation on suspects
Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman
Monday 28 March 2016 07.44 EDT
The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal.
A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as very gruesome.
The naked imagery of CIA captives raises new questions about the seeming willingness of the US to use what one medical and human rights expert called sexual humiliation in its post-9/11 captivity of terrorism suspects. Some human rights campaigners described the act of naked photography on unwilling detainees as a potential war crime.
Unlike video evidence of CIA torture at its undocumented black site prisons that were destroyed in 2005 by a senior official, the CIA is said to retain the photographs.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/cia-photographed-naked-detainees
choie
(4,111 posts)We're looking forward, not back - right? No accountable needed!
DocMac
(1,628 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)"It's all right as long as we do it => OK, maybe there are some loose ends but it's to late to do anything about them => yeah, OK, it was wrong, but now we must look forward => Are you still going on about that subject? Don't you know we have { this year's incarnation of the Anti-Christ } to fear?"
blackspade
(10,056 posts)There are some sick fucks working for the CIA.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)It's a national disgrace that the people who created the torture regime and the people who supported it's work have not been held accountable for their crimes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3507700/Obama-honor-Argentinas-Dirty-War-victims-coup-anniversary.html
I agree with you, Mr. President which is why I'm so saddened and angry that you didn't confront the crimes committed by the previous administration to yours. Until that is done we can't move forward as a nation.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)FairWinds
(1,717 posts)But FYI for all . .
It seems to becoming forgotten, but the US military torture was worse, and
more widespread.
Torture was by no means only done by the CIA.
Abu Ghraib, where a number of Daesh leaders met, was run by the US Army.
Veterans For Peace will not forget.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)It was very widespread.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)raging moderate
(4,308 posts)These pictures cover our nation with shame. How horrible to see the uniform of my United States of America on a set of vicious monsters! I cannot even look at those poor prisoners! And again and again, I remind myself that these are not the sort of pictures one would take to show one's family or reminisce over. Again and again, I ask myself, who were the intended recipients of these pictures? For whom did these sadists take these pictures to prove that they had done what they had been sent to do? Who directed that these atrocities should be committed? Just how high in our government did the crypto-Nazi rank?