Documents: Image of chained, diapered detainees worried Bush
Source: Associated Press
Documents: Image of chained, diapered detainees worried Bush
DEB RIECHMANN
June 16, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) Newly declassified documents offer more details about a detainee who died inside the secret prison network the CIA operated abroad after the Sept. 11 attacks and disclose that President George W. Bush was worried about the image of shackled detainees wearing adult diapers.
Among the 50 documents released was a heavily redacted memo in which then-CIA Director Porter Goss recounts a meeting with Bush on June 7, 2006. The only sentence left to read said: "The president was concerned about the image of a detainee, chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper and forced to go to the bathroom on themselves."
Human rights advocates said Wednesday that this week's release of the documents many footnoted in the 2014 Senate report on the torture of detainees depict the human suffering associated with the CIA's enhanced interrogation program, which President Barack Obama said did significant damage to America's standing in the world.
"A lot of these details haven't been released before and I think they kind of underscore the depravity of the program," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union. "You read these documents and you cannot help come away with and understand the grotesqueness of the methods they were using.
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marble falls
(57,081 posts)keeps growing and growing.
W was worried by the images? Only proves it is possible to literally gag a maggot. Also shows someone does have worries about his everlasting soul.
democrank
(11,094 posts)He should have been worried about the depravity he approved.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)It's hard to paint, for your new hobby, if you're not well rested.
Meantime, Rumsfield lives in the mansion he bought after 2008. It's called "Misery House" because it's known historically, as being the place where slaves were treated particularly cruelly. Rummy enjoys the vibes of the place.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)one of his many fantasies
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)fasttense
(17,301 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)fasttense
(17,301 posts)Impeachment was off the table and Obama' s administration never brought charges.
Hiding your head in the sand and allowing criminals to go free does Not hide the pictures or make the facts less palatable.
Botany
(70,503 posts)mission accomplished
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,157 posts)in life, if you wouldn't want it happening to you,
don't do it to others
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)tanyev
(42,553 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Javaman
(62,529 posts)clothed in a diaper and forced to go to the bathroom on themselves."
and the redacted next line read, "if this gets out, it will make me* look bad!"
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)No statute of limitation. Poppy should be worried too, but, you know.