*
Hela 60% av den unga generationen i USA ser idag tortyr som en bra och nödvändig förhörsteknik. Röda korset redovisar de här siffrorna i en stor undersökning som omnämns i den översta videon här på sidan.
Whistleblowern John Kiriakou, f.d. CIA, dömdes nyligen till 2,5-års fängelse för att han lämnat ut uppgifter angående det omfattande amerikanska tortyrprogrammet.
I dagens USA är det fullt naturligt att bestraffa whistleblowers som avslöjar detaljer om myndigheternas kriminella tortyrverksamhet.
- De som beordrar och utför tortyren går dock nästan alltid fria från straff...
*
Publicerad den 8 februari 2013
RT's Gayane Chichakyan talks to John Kiriakou - former CIA official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices. After 9/11 John Kiriakou served as chief of counter-terrorist operations in Pakistan. And now, years later, John Kiriakou is heading to prison. He was just sentenced to two and a half years in jail. *
Publicerad den 31 januari 2013
Former CIA agent John Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison for revealing the identity of a covert officer to a reporter. But originally he was pending charges on the violating the espionage act. Kiriakou is the first CIA official to publicly confirm the use of waterboarding and other tactics he describes as torture under the Bush administration. His supporters believe he has been unfairly targeted and punished. John Kiriakou and his attorney Jesselyn Radack join us for the details.
*
“- I was subjected to the sounds of a woman screaming, I was led to believe that my wife was being tortured,” Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee has shared with RT.
The former inmate has shed light on some of the torturous detention techniques at Guantanamo. They include, being cavity searched and given directions on how to commit suicide...
http://rt.com/op-edge/gitmo-strike-torture-inmate-724/
*
Publicerad den 25 januari 2013
On Friday, former CIA official John Kiriakou was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison for his involvement in exposing the CIA's interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. Kiriakou was persecuted by the Obama administration for violating the Espionage Act of 1917. RT's Meghan Lopez has more.*
Publicerad den 30 januari 2013
DemocracyNow.org - Former CIA agent John Kiriakou speaks out just days after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, becoming the first CIA official to face jail time for any reason relating to the U.S. torture program. Under a plea deal, Kiriakou admitted to a single count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by revealing the identity of a covert officer to a freelance reporter, who did not publish it. Supporters say Kiriakou is being unfairly targeted for having been the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the Bush administration's use of waterboarding.
Kiriakou joins to discuss his story from Washington, D.C., along with his attorney, Jesselyn Radack, director of National Security and Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project. "This was not a case about leaking, it was a case about torture. I believe I am going to prison because I blew the whistle on torture," Kiriakou says. "My oath was to the Constitution. ... And to me, torture is unconstitutional."
Tortyr - den officiella Amerikanska policyn + the John Kiriakou videos
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vidareläsning:
-Accused Torture Contractor Sues Abu Ghraib Torture Victims-
SvaraRaderaAugust 16, 2013
Source: All Gov.
Having defeated its accusers in court, CACI International is now suing the Iraqis who claimed the company was involved in their torture at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison during the U.S. occupation last decade.
CACI convinced a judge last month to throw out the lawsuit by four Iraqis after it was determined that the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, lacked jurisdiction because the alleged abuse occurred overseas.
The contractor now wants the plaintiffs to pay for $15,580 of its legal expenses, which largely relate to depositions CACI took.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs oppose the move, saying in a court filing that their clients “have very limited financial means, even by non-U.S. standards, and dramatically so when compared to the corporate defendants in this case.”[...]
http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/accused-torture-contractor-sues-abu-ghraib-torture-victims-130816?news=850878
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Accused_Torture_Contractor_Sues_Abu_Ghraib_Torture_Victims/28144/0/0/0/Y/M.html
Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Ordered To Pay U.S. Contractor’s Legal Fees
SvaraRaderaSeptember 15, 2013
Source: Popular Resistance
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/court-grants-cacis-request-for-legal-fees/2013/09/04/e1b2562c-1567-11e3-804b-d3a1a3a18f2c_blog.html?wprss=rss_local-arlington-social&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The decision in favor of CACI stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the former prisoners in 2008, alleging that CACI employees directed the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The suit was dismissed in June, when U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled that because the alleged acts took place on foreign soil, CACI was “immune from suit” in U.S. court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/abu-ghraib-case-against-caci-dismissed/2013/06/26/0a961b70-de7f-11e2-948c-d644453cf169_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/abu-ghraib-case-against-caci-dismissed/2013/06/26/0a961b70-de7f-11e2-948c-d644453cf169_story.html
Lee did not, however, directly address the question of whether CACI employees took part in the mistreatment of prisoners. The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib exploded into an international scandal in 2004, when shocking photos emerged of prisoners being stacked on top of each other, threatened with dogs, and sexually abused.
A little over a month after winning the dismissal this summer, CACI requested that the former prisoners be ordered to pay $15,580 to cover the company’s legal expenses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/caci-seeking-payment-from-former-abu-ghraib-prisoners/2013/08/12/4c573550-035d-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_blog.html
Lawyers for the Iraqis disputed that their clients should pay CACI’s bills, partly because the Iraqis had “very limited financial means, even by non-U.S. standards, and dramatically so when compared” to CACI, according to a court filing. Moreover, they wrote, the initial claims against CACI, involving “serious claims of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and war crimes were dismissed on very close, difficult — and only recently arguable — grounds.”
Attorneys for the Iraqi prisoners have said they plan to file an appeal of the June dismissal this fall.
Read More...
http://www.popularresistance.org/abu-ghraib-torture-victims-ordered-to-pay-u-s-contractors-legal-fees/
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Abu_Ghraib_Torture_Victims_Ordered_To_Pay_U.S._Contractor%E2%80%99s_Legal_Fees/28878/0/38/38/Y/M.html