{"id":281,"date":"2015-02-18T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/18\/this-is-who-we-are-guantanamo-torturer-led\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:41","slug":"this-is-who-we-are-guantanamo-torturer-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/02\/18\/this-is-who-we-are-guantanamo-torturer-led\/","title":{"rendered":"This _is_ who we are: Guant\u00e1namo torturer led brutal Chicago regime of shackling and confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Emphasis mine.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Most official accounts of Slahi\u2019s torture have concealed or glossed over Zuley\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

Chicago has long had an institutional problem with police torture. An infamous former police commander, Jon Burge, used to administer electric shocks to Chicagoans taken into his station, and hit them over the head with telephone books. On Friday, Burge was released from home monitoring, the conclusion of a four and a half year federal sentence \u2013 not for torture, but for perjury<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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When Zuley took over the Slahi interrogation in 2003 \u2013 his name has gone widely unreported \u2013 he designed a plan so brutal it received personal sign-off from then-US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This _is_ who we are: Guant\u00e1namo torturer led brutal Chicago regime of shackling and confession<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Emphasis mine.) Most official accounts of Slahi\u2019s torture have concealed or glossed over Zuley\u2019s name. \u2026 Chicago has long had an institutional problem with police torture. 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