CIA working with Palestinian security agents

[go west young man]

Source: The Guardian UK

Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned.

Less than a year after Barack Obama signed an executive order that prohibited torture and provided for the lawful interrogation of detainees in US custody, evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating with security agents whose continuing use of torture has been widely documented by human rights groups.

The relationship between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies involved – Preventive Security Organisation (PSO) and General Intelligence Service (GI) – is said by some western diplomats and other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.

One senior western official said: "The Agency consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services." A diplomatic source added that US influence over the agencies was so great they could be considered "an advanced arm of the war on terror".


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/cia-palestinian-security-agents

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Apparently Obama is failing in stopping torture by the US as he said he would.

[Arctic Dave]

1. You have to read between the lines. The US doesn't torture, our corporations do. Get it now?

[The Stranger]

2. Obama hasn't "failed in stopping" anything. He signed an executive order. If CIA agents are

violating it, they need to be arrested and prosecuted immediately.

[go west young man]

3. Judging from the article he certainly hasn't succeeded.

[kpete]

4. CIA working with Palestinian security agents (Allegations of CIA Involvement in West Bank Torture)

Source: Guardian UK


CIA working with Palestinian security agents

US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank


Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned.

Less than a year after Barack Obama signed an executive order that prohibited torture and provided for the lawful interrogation of detainees in US custody, evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating with security agents whose continuing use of torture has been widely documented by human rights groups.

The relationship between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies involved – Preventive Security Organisation (PSO) and General Intelligence Service (GI) – is said by some western diplomats and other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.

One senior western official said: "The Agency consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services." A diplomatic source added that US influence over the agencies was so great they could be considered "an advanced arm of the war on terror".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/cia-palestinian-security-agents

[unhappycamper]

5. I thought we didn't torture anymore.

Man, I hate it when we get caught like this.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. The hits keep coming.

[MessiahRp]

7. Good to know that modern America has one product we can export abroad.

:sarcasm:

Although of course it would be the shadiest fucking thing on Earth. This country disgusts me a lot these days.

Rp

[SirRevolutionary]

8. We do not torture...

we outsource that too.

[EFerrari]

9. "The fine men and women of the CIA"

[Mopar151]

10. There have been some real rotten apples in the CIA

Maybe since the Dulles brothers. And, IMHO, CIA SOP has been to hook up with the most venal, corrupt sumbitches locally available, because they are most easily co-opted. What other rackets are the PSO/GI into? And what were these CIA guys into before this assignment? Could we have sent the crew that was running the "black site" in Egypt?
Hey, I'm just an old shoprat - but I think we need to hire a better grade of help, and cut back on what we sub out to "Thugs R Us".
A lot of our day labor goons turn out substandard product, and the quality control cost is killin' us.

[ensho]

11. TORTURE is america's albatross

nt