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De CIA speelde Grotere Rol in het Adviseren van Pentagoon
Donderdag, 19 Juni, 2008
De marteling „is fundamenteel onderworpen aan waarneming,“ de counterterrorismadvocaat Jonathan Fredman van de CIA vertelde een groep militaire en intelligentieambtenaren die bij de V.S. worden verzameld - in werking gesteld detentiekamp in Cuba op Okt. 2, 2002, volgens notulen van de vergadering. „Als de gevangene sterft, doet u verkeerd het.“ Document, één van twee dozijn vrijgegeven door een paneel onderzoekt dat van de Senaat hoe de ambtenaren van het Pentagoon het controversiële ondervragingsprogramma ontwikkelden dat bij de Baai van Guantanamo in eind 2002 wordt voorgelegd, stelt een grotere rol van de CIA in het adviseren voor De Afdeling van de defensie ondervragers dan eerder het geweten was. Tegen de tijd dat van de vergadering, de CIA reeds het waterboarding had gebruikt, die verdrinking simuleert, op minstens één terrorismeverdachte en hield op hoog niveau al-Qaeda gevangenen in geheime gevangenissen overzee - acties die de het beleidsadvocaten van Bush hadden goedgekeurd. Het nieuwe bewijsmateriaal, samen met uren van het vragen van de vroegere ambtenaren van het Pentagoon bij vernemen Het Comité van de Strijdkrachten van de senaat gisteren, afgeworpen licht op inspanningen door hoogste assistenten aan toen-defensieSecretaresse Donald H. Rumsfeld aan onderzoek en omgekeerd-ingenieurstechnieken die door militaire overlevingsscholen worden gebruikt om de V.S. voor te bereiden. de dienst leden voor mogelijke vangst door vijandige krachten. De technieken - sensorische ontbering, gedwongen nudity, spanningsposities en benutting van fobieën, zouden zoals vrees voor honden - uiteindelijk goedgekeurd worden voor gebruik bij de Baai van Guantanamo en zouden aan de V.S. uitspreiden. detentie faciliteiten in Afghanistan en Irak, met inbegrip van Abu Ghraib gevangenis. Bijna werden allen later herroepen. De onlangs vrijgegeven documenten tonen aan dat in de zomer van 2002, de ambtenaren van het Pentagoon lijsten van agressieve technieken compileerden, verzoekend adviezen uit de CIA en anderen, en uiteindelijk uitvoerend de praktijken over oppositie van militaire advocaten die dat de voorgestelde tactiek waarschijnlijk onwettig was debatteerden en de V.S. konden berokkenen. troepen. De memoranda en ander bewijsmateriaal riepen intense tweeledige veroordeling van leden van het Comité van Strijdkrachten op die bijna acht uren roosterend enkele vroegere en huidige ambtenaren doorbrachten die met de besluiten worden geïmpliceerd. “The guidance that was provided during this period of time, I think, will go down in history as some of the most irresponsible and shortsighted legal analysis ever provided to our nation’s military and intelligence communities,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.). Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), the committee chairman, asked: “How on Earth did we get to the point where a United States government lawyer would say that . . . torture is subject to perception?” One of the most explosive memos was the account of the October 2002 Guantanamo Bay meeting in which the CIA’s Fredman joined 10 Defense Department officials and lawyers to discuss how to extract better intelligence from detainees there. Fredman, whose agency had been granted broad latitude by Justice Department lawyers to conduct harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists, listed key considerations for setting a similar program at the Cuban prison. He discussed the pros and cons of videotaping, talked about how to avoid interference by the International Committee of the Red Cross and offered a strong defense of waterboarding. “If a well-trained individual is used to perform this technique, it can feel like you’re drowning,” he said, according to the meeting’s minutes, which do not provide a verbatim transcript. Fredman said medical experts should monitor detainees. “If someone dies while aggressive techniques are being used, regardless of the cause of death, the backlash of attention would be severely detrimental,” he was quoted as saying. CIA spokesman George Little declined to comment on the remarks attributed to Fredman. “The far more important point is the fact that CIA’s terrorist interrogation program has operated on the basis of measured, detailed legal guidance from the Department of Justice,” he said. “The agency program, which has been carefully reviewed within our government, has disrupted terrorist plots and saved innocent lives.” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the administration’s consistent policy has been to treat detainees humanely and within the law. “Abuse of detainees has never been, is not, and will never be the policy of this government,” he said at a news briefing yesterday. But some of Fredman’s advice was apparently persuasive for top Pentagon officials, who in the following weeks approved the first formal program for harsh interrogations at the facility in Cuba. While the outlines of the Guantanamo Bay program are widely known, the new documents suggest a common interest by the CIA and Pentagon in the use of tactics from a program known as Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape. In testimony, officials involved in SERE training acknowledged being asked to write memos for senior Pentagon officials about which techniques had the greatest psychological effect. Among those questioned yesterday about decisions was William J. “Jim” Haynes II, a former Defense Department general counsel who acknowledged pressing for more aggressive techniques but said the decisions were driven by the administration’s fear of more terrorist strikes. “What I remember about the summer of 2002 was a government-wide concern about the possibility of another terrorist attack as the anniversary of September 11″ approached, Haynes said. He also cited “widespread frustration” among Pentagon officials that summer about the slow progress on obtaining information from Guantanamo Bay detainees. But Haynes and other Pentagon officials acknowledged that the proposed methods faced opposition at the time from experts in military and international law. Among them was Mark Fallon, deputy commander of the Defense Department’s Criminal Investigation Task Force. He warned in an October 2002 e-mail to Pentagon colleagues that the techniques under discussion would “shock the conscience of any legal body” that might review how the interrogations were conducted. “This looks like the kind of stuff Congressional hearings are made of,” Fallon wrote. He added: “Someone needs to be considering how history will look back at this.” See More:CIA USA NewsHave Your Say: CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon Please note, only selected comments will be published. 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