Cheney Intervened in CIA Inspector General's Torture Probe

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/052209R

Friday 22 May 2009

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report


Former Vice President Dick Cheney intervened in CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's investigation into the agency's use of torture against "high-value" detainees, but the watchdog was still able to prepare a report that concluded the interrogation program violated some provisions of the International Convention Against Torture.

The report, which the Obama administration may soon declassify, was completed in May 2004 and implicated CIA interrogators in at least three detainee deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq and referred eight criminal cases of alleged homicide, abuse and misconduct to the Justice Department for further investigation, reporter Jane Mayer wrote in her book, "The Dark Side," and in an investigative report published in The New Yorker in November 2005.

[Lasher]

1. If that wasn't obstruction,

then I guess I don't know what obstruction is.

[Kip Humphrey]

2. Ahem... Death by "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" = TORTURE!!!

[babylonsister]

4. Or murder? nt

[Wednesdays]

3. K&R

:kick:

[chill_wind]

5. kick and rec. n/t

[WeDidIt]

6. Get back to me with another source within 24 business hours. n/t