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It still makes me sick to my stomach – this time the sworn testimony of CIA contract psychologist/torturer James Mitchell that Gina Haspel was - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original

Like many ground-breaking investigations, the exposé would take decades to be accepted as fact

It is eye-opening, and yet also like Gibney’s best work, affirming in the worst ways.

Rapport-building techniques, which by the way, are legal. >> and thats the valid point here. in fact, we have testimony. we have the information that he got from abu zubaydah, and we know that to be more reliable than what was got from enhanced interrogation techniques, and to this day there are people who will defend the idea that interrogation works. whats in it for hem to defend it, other than protecting their own legacy? >> i think thats precisely whats in it for them. theyre right to preten...

Terror, we continue to adopt those universal principles. >> there are two buckets here. one is guantanamo, which is representative of the way whether we do it guantanamo or the way we held prisoners in the middle east, which doesnt seem to live up to any meaningful standard of how you imprison people. and theres the second issue, which is enhanced interrogation techniques or what we now know to be torture and its effectiveness. both of these have undermined these universal principles that you sa...

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The U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has generated intense debate for two decades, with enduring questions about national security, human rights, and justice.

There is no connections whatsoever with any type of organised crimes because i dont want to use terrorism because i dont believe in these word because its used to oppress politically descent in my part of the world, and its abuse to collectively punish innocent people. if you say a murderer, everybody would understand and there are evidence, but if you say a terrorist, you can do everything you want with a person with no accountability whatsoever. mohamedou, you were known as prisoner 760... yes...

Mohamedou, you were known as prisoner 760... yes! ..at guantanamo. you were subject to enhanced interrogation techniques which were signed off by the defence secretary donald rumsfeld himself. youve already used the word torture to me, what were the most difficult experiences you went through? so, one day, i remember its around noon, but i dont think its at noon. these middle—aged men by the name of richard zuley, lieutenant richard zuley, he called himself captain collins, came to me in my in...

That would work as part of the enhanced interrogation program. but how would you make the leap from that to actually carrying out, personally, some of those interrogation techniques? well, by the time they asked me if i would do the interrogations myself, i had received over 90 intel briefings about the impending catastrophic attacks that were in the works. there was a lot of reliable intelligence to suggest that that second wave of attacks might involve a nuclear weapon. when they asked me, i w...