xer-files: Reduction to insurgents’ barbaric levels

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Reduction to insurgents’ barbaric levels

From Guerilla News Network:

The Abu Ghraib scandal seems not to have chastened Cheney or any other Administration officials; in fact, they are for the first time arguing openly and explicitly that C.I.A. personnel should be exempt from standards that apply to every other American.

Also by Jane Mayer:

• The Experiment: Torture Methods at Guantanamo

• Outsourcing Torture: The Secret History of America’s ‘’Extraordinary Rendition‘’

By Jane Mayer
Republished from The New Yorker

Can the CIA Legally Kill a Prisoner?

At the end of a secluded cul-de-sac, in a fast-growing Virginia suburb favored by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a handsome replica of an old-fashioned farmhouse, with a white-railed front porch. The large back yard has a swimming pool, which, on a recent October afternoon, was neatly covered. In the driveway were two cars, a late-model truck, and an all-terrain vehicle. The sole discordant note was struck by a faded American flag on the porch; instead of fluttering in the autumn breeze, it was folded on a heap of old Christmas ornaments.

The house belongs to Mark Swanner, a forty-six-year-old C.I.A. officer who has performed interrogations and polygraph tests for the agency, which has employed him at least since the nineteen-nineties. (He is not a covert operative.) Two years ago, at Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad, an Iraqi prisoner in Swanner’s custody, Manadel al-Jamadi, died during an interrogation." [..]

¶ Tuesday, November 08, 2005

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