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Guantanamo Interrogator Also Tortured Suspects as Chicago Detective: The Guardian
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/02/18/guantanamo-interrogator-also-tortured-suspects-chicago-detective-guardianFormer Chicago detective Richard Zuley was responsible for 'one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay,' a new investigation has revealed.
Guantanamo Interrogator Also Tortured Suspects as Chicago Detective: The Guardian
Nadia Prupis
Wednesday, February 18, 201
Former Guantánamo Bay official Richard Zuley, who led "one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted" at the military prison, spent 25 years as a notoriously brutal Chicago detective, a new investigation by the Guardian published Wednesday has revealed.
From 1977 to 2007, Zuley used torture, threats, and abuse to elicit confessionsat least one proven falsefrom his suspects, the majority of whom were not white, the Guardian reports. As a detective, Zuley's tactics included:
* Shackling suspects to police-precinct walls through eyebolts for hours on end;
* Allegedly planting evidence when there was pressure for a high-profile murder conviction;
* Threatening to harm family members of those under interrogation, as a point of leverage;
* Pressuring suspects to implicate themselves and others;
* Threatening the death penalty if suspects did not confess.
In 2013, state's attorney Anita Alvarez made a landmark decision to free a man who had confessed to murder in 1990 during one of Zuley's investigations. Lathierial Boyd, in prison for 23 years, accused Zuley of planting evidence and withholding key details in order to secure a conviction against him.
Zuley was similarly brutal at Guantánamo, where his techniques were "supercharged." He was in charge of the torture of a detainee named Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who wrote in his memoir that he made false confessions. According to the Guardian, "After Zuley took over in July 2003, Slahi was subjected to even more extreme interrogation tactics: multiple death threats, extreme temperatures, sleep deprivation and a terrifying nighttime boat ride in which he was made to believe that worse was in store."
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Guantanamo Interrogator Also Tortured Suspects as Chicago Detective: The Guardian (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2015
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Euphoria
(448 posts)1. This demonstrates that torture is sadism.
Also, how did this policeman end up
running around Guantanamo? Who, and we need names here, hired him for the job?
fasttense
(17,301 posts)2. How many more like Zuley are being trained
on the streets of Chicago, Missouri, New York or Detroit right now?
Zuley didn't spring as a full fledged brutal torturer onto the Chicago police. It took practice and support from others.
So our American justice system
has become a practice field for torture.
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)3. "patriots under pressure"?
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/378226/report-former-chicago-police-detective-accused-guantanamo-torture
Richard Zuley, who retired from the department and now works for the citys Aviation Department, took over the interrogation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi at Guantanamo in 2002, the newspaper reported.
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am i reading this right...this excuse for a human being still works for the city of chicago?
Richard Zuley, who retired from the department and now works for the citys Aviation Department, took over the interrogation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi at Guantanamo in 2002, the newspaper reported.
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am i reading this right...this excuse for a human being still works for the city of chicago?