Aug 25 2009

No. 258 – CIA contractor killed person in interrogation

( – promoted by buhdydharma )

In the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General’s 2004 report on Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (PDF) is this passage stating “inhumane… detention and interrogation techniques were used”. In addition, a CIA contractor killed “an individual” at Asadabad Base in Afghanistan “while under interrogation” in June 2003.

258 . (TS Unauthorized, improvised, inhumane, and undocumented detention and interrogation techniques were used referred to the Department of Justice (DoJ) for potential prosecution. incident will be the subject of a separate Report of Investigation by the Office of Inspector General.

unauthorized techniques were used in the interrogation of an individual who died at Asadabad Base while under interrogation by an Agency contractor in June 2003. Agency officers did not normally conduct interrogations at that location the Agency officers involved lacked timely and adequate guidance, training, experience, supervision, or authorization, and did not exercise sound judgment.

The argument had been no one died while being interrogated tortured, but the OIG’s report contradicts that. Not only that, but “unauthorized, improvised, inhumane, and undocumented detention and interrogation techniques were used”.

At the time the Abu Ghraib photos became known, the NY Times identified the person killed at Asadabad as Abdul Wali.

The third death under investigation at the C.I.A. occurred in Afghanistan in June 2003. The dead man was named Abdul Wali, a former local commander who had fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980’s and turned himself in to American forces last June in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan. He died while being interrogated by an independent contract employee of the C.I.A.

Wali surrendered to the U.S. and was then killed by a CIA contractor named David Passaro. According to the News and Observer, he is serving eight years for beating Wali resulting in his death.

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  1. … but this is the CIA report that was already whitewashed by the CIA?  And then further redacted these past several months.

    Good lord, imagine what actually happened if this is the cleaned up version.

    Oy.

  2. But this CIA-OIG Report appears to be, notwithstanding all the redaction, as limited in scope as is Holder’s “scope” of investigations that he is committing John Durham to commence, or is it vice-versa!

    Maybe, I answered my own questions — seriously, all things considered, it seems the type of investigation that Holder had spoken about in the recent past is so correlated to this CIA-OIG Report and the timing of both seem a little suspect, I think — can’t be sure, just wondering!

    Thanks, Magnifico!

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