Thursday, December 13, 2007

New Evidence That Hayden Lied; Former Prisoner Claims His Torture Was Taped In 2003.

Ah, the plot thickens...

Thinkprogress:

Earlier this week, ThinkProgress raised the issue of whether
CIA Director Michael Hayden is lying when he claims that “videotaping stopped in 2002.” The New York Times reported that former prisoner Muhammad Bashmilah, who claims “he was held by the C.I.A.,” said he “saw cameras in interrogation rooms after 2002.”
Since then, more evidence has emerged that videotaped interrogations were occurring after 2002. The Chicago Tribune reports that in Feb. 2003, the CIA abducted a man named Abu Omar and rendered him to Egypt. The prisoner, who is now living in Alexandria, Egypt, said he could hear interrogators recording “
the sounds of my torture and my cries“:

A suspected terrorist abducted in Italy and flown to Egypt by the CIA said he believed his captors made audiotapes of his extensive interrogations in an Egyptian prison that recorded “the sounds of my torture and my cries.” The prisoner said he was blindfolded but could hear what sounded like a tape cassette being flipped over and reinserted.

“I remember once while being interrogated, the interrogator asked me to wait a second and then I could hear the click of the device and I could hear him changing the cassette,” said Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who spent nearly four years in an Egyptian prison before an Egyptian court ordered his release earlier this year.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

Porter Goss allowed the tapes to be destroyed because it was Dick Cheney who was running the CIA. Now Hayden was told to lie and he did as he was told. Notice Hayden still wears his uniform because he really isn't in charge of the CIA he's just sitting in the chair and drawing a pay check. Bush appointees know who's in charge and it isn't Bush. Notice how Bush only gets the news when the paper prints it for the public.