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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama Justice Department indicts ex-CIA agent for exposing torture
April 8, 2012
By Bill van Auken
The prosecution of Kiriakou is part of a policy of state secrecy and repression that pervades the US government under Obama, who came into office promising "the most transparent administration in history." This marks the sixth government whistleblower to be charged by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act, twice as many such prosecutions as have been brought by all preceding administrations combined.
Thursday's indictment of John Kiriakou for exposing CIA torture of detainees confirms yet again that the Obama administration is continuing and deepening the crimes carried out by the Bush White House. Kiriakou, a CIA agent for 14 years, is being prosecuted for speaking to two journalists about the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah.
Zubaydah, severely wounded when he was captured by US and Pakistani intelligence agents, had already been suffering the effects of a shrapnel wound to the head he received during the CIA-backed war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Under US control, he was beaten, placed in extreme temperatures, and subjected to music played at debilitating volumes, sexual humiliation and sleep deprivation.
His interrogators also locked him for protracted periods in a small box, where he was forced to crouch in complete darkness, while the stressful position caused his wounds to open up and bleed.
At some point during this ordeal, the CIA removed Zubaydah's left eye.
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Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Justice-Department-i-by-Bill-van-Auken-120408-190.html
By Bill van Auken
The prosecution of Kiriakou is part of a policy of state secrecy and repression that pervades the US government under Obama, who came into office promising "the most transparent administration in history." This marks the sixth government whistleblower to be charged by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act, twice as many such prosecutions as have been brought by all preceding administrations combined.
Thursday's indictment of John Kiriakou for exposing CIA torture of detainees confirms yet again that the Obama administration is continuing and deepening the crimes carried out by the Bush White House. Kiriakou, a CIA agent for 14 years, is being prosecuted for speaking to two journalists about the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah.
Zubaydah, severely wounded when he was captured by US and Pakistani intelligence agents, had already been suffering the effects of a shrapnel wound to the head he received during the CIA-backed war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Under US control, he was beaten, placed in extreme temperatures, and subjected to music played at debilitating volumes, sexual humiliation and sleep deprivation.
His interrogators also locked him for protracted periods in a small box, where he was forced to crouch in complete darkness, while the stressful position caused his wounds to open up and bleed.
At some point during this ordeal, the CIA removed Zubaydah's left eye.
---snip---
Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Justice-Department-i-by-Bill-van-Auken-120408-190.html
Apparently, whistleblowers will not be tolerated.
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Obama Justice Department indicts ex-CIA agent for exposing torture (Original Post)
NorthCarolina
Apr 2012
OP
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)1. Okay who wants to defend this? Any takers?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Here's the
previous thread. http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002528908
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. "The CIA removed Zubaydeh's left eye"
What. The. Fuck.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)4. Hard to believe that such actions are condoned
by ANY Presidential Administration, let alone the Obama Administration. What have we become as a nation?
msongs
(67,433 posts)5. umm it is not "we as a nation" it is "him" as commander in chief nt