Military attorney: Waterboarding is ‘tip of the iceberg’
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A military attorney who represented a now-freed Guantanamo detainee told CNN on Wednesday that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg”Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley was the lawyer for Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national who was arrested by the Pakistani government in April 2002 on suspicion of being a member of al Qaeda. He was then shuffled through a series of CIA “ghost prisons” before being imprisoned at Guantanamo for five years. Last winter, President Obama ordered him released to the United Kingdom, where he had been a legal resident.
Bradley told CNN that when she was first assigned to represent Mohamed, she did not question he was a hardened terrorist, because “my government was saying these were the worst of the worst.” However, she now says, “There’s no reliable evidence that Mr. Mohamed was going to do anything to the United States.”
According to Bradley, when Mohamed was first held at a CIA prison in Morocco, “They started this monthly treatment where they would come in with a scalpel or a razor type of instrument and they would slash his genitals, just with small cuts.”
Following that torture, Mohamed confessed that he had attended an al Qaeda training camp and discussed plans to make a dirty bomb. He also answered “No” to the question, “While in U.S. military custody have you been treated in any way that you would consider abusive?”
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@MarkAHorne on twitter says "Waterboarding is ‘tip of the iceberg’ - small cuts on genitals ok too"
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VoyagerFilms
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Of course waterboarding is the tip of the iceberg. Criminals with the power of the President don't stop with a little transgression, they were intoxicated with power and the worst in them came out.
We will learn how President Bush and his gang violated the civil rights of a lot more people than supposed terrorists. The truth is, I am certain the US was headed toward a terrible dictatorship, but, but something stopped it - thank God.
- 9 months ago
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masterzip
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waterboarding is just a part of the action,..don't forget how many homicides were committed under interrogations.(why is so much blood coming out of this guys ass??? what the hell kind of interrogations are these??? and is the valuable information that "all republicans" are claiming they found tout and saved us have to do with keeping us from potential sexual deviants in the U.S. Military)
Mark Swanner is a CIA interrogator. He worked at the Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. A prisoner named Manadel al-Jamadi died during one of his interrogations while his wrists were tied behind his back.
Media reports interpreted this to mean he was tied up in strappado style but guards told CIA investigators that Jamadi was given enough slack to kneel or stand.
Swanner claims that he did not harm al-Jamadi and that the death was accidental and unexpected. He has not been charged with a crime. - 9 months ago
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masterzip
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carmalite
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masterzip:
what was done in our names is unspeakable. It seems Cheney is working really hard to save his backside and his reputation.
He knows we will have another attack and he is setting it up to blame Obama in advance. He is a monster. I think he was the one in charge of everything and not GW. - 9 months ago
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carmalite
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carmalite
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JAG Core is against torture. Some even hired outside Lawyers to try to protect themselves when this came down because they knew it was illegal.
I hope they let the public know if this JAG attorney is punished for speaking out. They could cut her rank or force her to retire. But she is supposed to protect the constitution, not the administration, and that is the oath they take.
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carmalite
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slarabee
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This story is very sick and is the main reason we need to have full investigations and prosecutions.
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slarabee
