{"id":73,"date":"2017-02-22T18:39:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/22\/in-their-own-words-cia-cables-document-agencys\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:22:42","slug":"in-their-own-words-cia-cables-document-agencys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/02\/22\/in-their-own-words-cia-cables-document-agencys\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Own Words: CIA Cables Document Agency\u2019s Torture of Abu Zubaydah – ProPublica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Through recently released cables obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and Zubayadah\u2019s own account to his lawyers, which has also been recently declassified, a chilling picture has emerged of just what transpired on those days and who oversaw it. According to John Kirakou, a former CIA counterterrorism official, the \u201cchief of base\u201d personally managing the operation was Gina Haspel. President Donald Trump recently named Haspel to the number two spot at the CIA.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Through recently released cables obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and Zubayadah\u2019s own account to his lawyers, which has also been recently declassified, a chilling picture has emerged of just what transpired on those days and who oversaw it. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/03\/16\/correction-trumps-pick-to-head-cia-did-not\/","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":0},"title":"Correction: Trump\u2019s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah \u2014 ProPublica","author":"aslam","date":"March 16, 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Correction: Trump\u2019s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah \u2014 ProPublica","rel":"","context":"In \"black site\"","block_context":{"text":"black site","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/black-site\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":260,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/05\/21\/court-rules-that-cia-can-keep-secret-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":1},"title":"Court Rules That CIA Can Keep Secret the 7,000-Page Senate Torture Report","author":"aslam","date":"May 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"matthewaid: May 21, 2015Court sides with CIA, \u2018torture\u2019 reports to stay secretMichael DoyleMcClatchy NewsMay 21, 2015 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0WASHINGTON \u2014 The CIA can keep secret a nearly 7,000-page Senate report on harsh interrogation methods, as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"torture\"","block_context":{"text":"torture","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/torture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":467,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/08\/05\/sen-feinstein-rejects-cia-torture-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":2},"title":"Sen. 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