Posts Tagged ‘cia’

CIA paid millions of dollars to ISI since 9/11: Report

The CIA has paid millions of dollars to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since 9/11, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency’s annual budget, says a media report.

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Zadari: Osama was an “Operator” for the United States

In the interview here, NBC’s David Gregory completely ignores Pakistan president Asif Ali Zadari when he declares that Osama bin Laden was an “operator” for the United States. Gregory wants to know if Zadari believes Osama is alive. He wants to know why Pakistan has not gone after Bin Laden.

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Unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death

The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. These previously unreported pages detail repeated use of “abusive” behavior, even to the point of prisoner deaths. The documents, obtained by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information Act request, contain a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, who was tapped to conduct a comprehensive review of Defense Department interrogation operations. Church specifically calls out interrogations at Bagram Air base in Afghanistan as “clearly abusive, and clearly not in keeping with any approved interrogation policy or guidance.”

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‘Borderline Torture’

The CIA last year refused to permit Justice Department investigators to question a key Al Qaeda detainee about what happened to him in the agency’s custody, including reports that he was subjected to “waterboarding” and other abusive interrogation methods.

According to a report released Tuesday, the CIA’s actions in blocking the investigators’ access to Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah were “unwarranted” and “hampered” an investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General into the FBI’s knowledge of abuse by CIA and U.S. military interrogators.

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