CIA Supervisor Claimed He Used Fire Ants On Detainee

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CIA Supervisor Claimed He Used Fire Ants On Detainee



A recently released legal memo describing interrogation techniques showed that Bush Administration lawyers had approved the use of "insects" in interrogations. "You would like to place Zubaydeh in a cramped confinement box with an insect," Jay Bybee, then a Justice Department lawyer and now a federal judge, wrote in 2002. He opined that as long as the bug wasn't actually harmful, it would not violate the law to use one to scare a terrorist detainee.

That was the first mention of insects to become public. But the memo's release may make it worth looking back to a brouhaha that occurred in secret at the agency in 2005. A CIA supervisor involved in the "enhanced interrogation" program bragged to other CIA employees about using fire ants while during questioning of a top terror suspect, according to several sources formerly with the Agency. The official claimed to other Agency employees, the sources say, to have put the stinging ants on a detainee's head to help break him.

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So what is one to make of his bizarre claim to have used fire ants to get a terrorist suspect to talk? When he made the boast, according to officials familiar with the events, he was at the CIA's bar at "The Farm," where the CIA trains case officer cadets, down at Camp Peary in Virginia. It's an old U-shaped bar, as officers describe it, topped with cheap linoleum, and a couple of little booths like those found in an old cafeteria. The room opens up to a large lounge with a big open fireplace. Back in the old days, the area was decorated with photographs from Southeast Asia and other regions of CIA derring-do, but now it is a dreary place.

According to those who were told about the incident, the official was putting down drink after drink at the bar. "He was running his mouth," said one ex-officer, "carrying on." Sources say the supervisor bragged loudly that he had used fire ants to torment an al Qaeda suspect to get him to talk. As one version of the evening has it, he bragged of putting the stinging bugs in a helmet and then putting the helmet on the detainee.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aram-roston/cia-supervisor-claimed-he_b_231303.html

[HillbillyBob]

1. Sounds like torture to me..then again I am deathly allergic

to fire ants, hornets, wasps, spiders etc.

[Liberation Angel]

2. In Thailand, which is a scary police state: HOLDER: INVESTIGATE/PROSECUTE!

Bush/Cheney/Rummy

the whole cabal!

I interviewed a refugee today who was tortured in a Thailand concentration camp when he was 12 years old.

Brutal: he was staked in the hot sun in scalding sand four seven days straight (they released him at night to his bunk) but during the day he had no food pr drink.

It gets worse...

But it is his story so i am holding it for now...

Obama needs to look over his shoulder and see what is back there because these fiends are STILL out there and a danger to the whole planet as long as he fails to prosecute and incarcerate the heads of this Nazi bullshit!

On Edit: the secret torture camps where this purportedly happened were in Thailand

[Liberation Angel]

3. kick

nt