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24. August 2009, 26. August 2009
08/25/2009
Kvindefredslejren ved Ravnstrup etableres, 1984.
08/25/2009
The CIA torture report: what were they hiding?
A Side-by-side Comparison of the Bush and Barack Obama Administration
Releases
The Torture Archive: 83,000 Pages Now Online, Full-text and
Indexed
Washington, DC, August 25, 2009 - Today, the National Security
Archive posted a side-by-side comparison of two very different
versions of a 2004 report on the CIA's "Counterterrorism Detention
and Interrogation Activities" by Agency Inspector General John
Helgerson. Yesterday, the Obama administration released new
portions of the report including considerably more information
about the use of torture and other illegal practices by CIA
interrogators than a version of the report declassified by the Bush
administration in 2008.
New revelations include:
* Details on "specific unauthorized or undocumented torture
techniques," including the use of guns, drills, threats, smoke,
extreme cold, stress positions, "stiff brush and shackles,"
waterboarding, mock executions and "hard takedown."
* A look at the legal reasoning behind the Agency's use of
"enhanced interrogation techniques" and the development of Agency
guidance on capture, detention and interrogation.
* A brief discussion of the history of the CIA interrogation
program, including the "resurgence of interest in teaching
interrogation techniques" in the early 1980s "as one of several
methods to foster foreign liaison relationships."
* The conclusion that, while CIA interrogations had produced useful
intelligence, the "effectiveness of particular interrogation
techniques in eliciting information that might not otherwise have
been obtained" is not "so easily measured."
The National Security Archive also announced today the publication
of the Torture Archive -- more than 83,000 pages of primary source
documents (and thousands more to come) related to the detention and
interrogation of individuals by the United States, in connection
with the conduct of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as
in the broader context of the "global war on terror." The goal of
the Torture Archive is to become the online institutional memory
for essential evidence on torture in U.S. policy.
With support from the Open Society Institute and the JEHT
Foundation since 2006, this initial launch of the Torture Archive
includes the complete set of declassified Combatant Status Review
Tribunal and Administrative Review Board files from the Pentagon,
and thousands of documents resulting from FOIA litigation brought
by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Archive and other
plaintiffs. The Torture Archive will continue to add documents as
they are released through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
litigation or Executive discretion.
The National Security Archive: http://www.nsarchive.org
The Torture Archive: http://www.nsarchive.org/torture_archive
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