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Guy who was still in u.s. custody as of yesterday who only got handed over to the afghans yesterday on the day that the torture report came out. this is from the torture report. it names him as the first cia detainee to be held at detention site cobalt since he was brought there in september 2002, the way the cia tortured and interrogated him including isolation, total darkness, lowering the quality of his food, keeping him at an uncomfortable cold temperature, playing music 24 hours a day, keeping him shackled and hooded. in addition, he was described as having been left hanging, which involv...

Got handed over to the afghans yesterday on the day that the torture report came out. this is from the torture report. it names him as the first cia detainee to be held at detention site cobalt since he was brought there in september 2002, the way the cia tortured and interrogated him including isolation, total darkness, lowering the quality of his food, keeping him at an uncomfortable cold temperature, playing music 24 hours a day, keeping him shackled and hooded. in addition, he was described as having been left hanging, which involved handcuffing one or both of his wrists to an overhead bar...

At a minimum, give her a very sobering warning or assessment about the possible terrorist threats that release of the report at this time would engender. >> right. the interesting thing that you bring up, members of congress and members of the senate in particular, because much has been made about who was briefed on all of these techniques. it was well known that nancy pelosi, and others, many others, knew about these techniques and now they're saying, well, the full committee really didn't hear about them. who did you brief about these techniques? >> well, as soon as the techniques were appro...

Specific rules for the interrogator and detainee involved. none of these assurances, which the department of justice relied on to form its legal opinions were consistently or even routinely scari routinely carried out. in many cases, important information was withheld from policy makers. for example, former chairman bob graham asked a number of questions after he was first briefed in september 2002 but the cia refused to answer him, effectively stonewalling him until he left the committee at the end of the year. in another example, the cia in coordination with white house officials and staff w...

The code name cobalt to hide the actual name of the facility. it began operation in september 2002. the facility kept few formal records of the detainees housed there and untrained cia officers conducted frequent, unauthorized and unsupervised interrogations. using techniques that were not and never became part of the cia's enhanced interrogation program. the cia placed a junior officer with no relevant experience in charge of the site. in november 2002, an otherwise healthy detainee, who was being held mostly nude and chained to a concrete floor, died at the