What the C.I.A.’s #Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured - The #New_York_Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html
Drawings done in captivity by the first prisoner known to undergo “enhanced interrogation” portray his account of what happened to him in vivid and disturbing ways.
Ceci dit, il ne faut pas trop en demander au NYT,
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Those Torture Drawings in the NYT – Consortiumnews
▻https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/12/john-kiriakou-those-torture-drawings-in-the-nyt
With that said, the Times article, although revelatory in terms of Abu Zubaydah’s personal story, was woefully inadequate. It never mentioned, for example, how the Obama administration did literally nothing to make any of this right. Remember former President Barack Obama’s decision to hold no one accountable for the torture program and instead “look forward, not backward?” That didn’t serve #justice. It just protected the torturers and the criminals who supported them. Remember the promise to close #Guantanamo? It never happened.
And what about that Senate torture report? We talk about “the Senate torture report” like we actually know what was in it. We don’t. The 5,500-page report was never released . Instead, after a battle royal with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), Obama finally allowed only a heavily redacted version, less than 700 pages, of the report’s executive summary to see the light of day. And all of that happened after then-CIA Director and Obama loyalist John Brennan ordered #CIA officers to secretly hack into the SSCI’s computer system to see what committee investigators were up to. Of course, no charges for that were ever filed.