{"id":147662,"date":"2015-04-30T19:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=147662"},"modified":"2015-04-30T19:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:57:46","slug":"the-cia-cant-bury-the-truth-about-its-atrocities-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/the-cia-cant-bury-the-truth-about-its-atrocities-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIA can&#8217;t bury the truth about its atrocities forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is an American Torture Story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noam Chomsky<\/p>\n<p>Majid Khan was at the mercy of CIA interrogators for 1,200 days \u2013 at least. During that time, he was stripped. He was forced into ice water baths. He was \u201chung up\u201d for a day in a sleep deprivation position. He was denied solid food for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>After about a year, Majid Khan went on hunger strike to protest the treatment he was receiving. The CIA responded with \u201cinvoluntary rectal feeding and rectal hydration.\u201d Majid\u2019s lunch tray, consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins, was \u201cpureed\u201d and \u201crectally infused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforfreedom.com\/The-CIA-Vatican-Cocaine-Connection-p\/2061.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-147663\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cia-vatican.gif\" alt=\"cia-vatican\" width=\"226\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>This happened repeatedly. Eventually, Majid Khan attempted to cut his wrists.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m interested in the power of words. \u00a0Terms like \u201cenhanced interrogation\u201d or \u201crectal feeding\u201d are clever disguises for the true term we should be using to describe the CIA\u2019s treatment of Majid and more than 100 others: Torture.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA can try to bury the truth of these atrocities, but it\u2019s up to us to hold the agency responsible. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/our-work\/issues\/torture\/read-the-report\" target=\"_blank\">Tell U.S. authorities that no one gets away with torture<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amnestyusa.org\/us\/no-one-should-get-away-with-torture\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an American Torture Story. Noam Chomsky Majid Khan was at the mercy of CIA interrogators for 1,200 days \u2013 at least. During that time, he was stripped. He was forced into ice water baths. He was \u201chung up\u201d for a day in a sleep deprivation position. He was denied solid food for seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}