9/11 architect Mohammed was the most tortured by CIA

[deminks]

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5210151-9-11-architect-mohammed-was-the-most-tortured-by-cia/

WASHINGTON Less than two hours after the admitted Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured, the chief of interrogations of a new CIA detention site in Afghanistan emailed Washington with this subject line: "Let's roll with the new guy."

For the next 3 ½ years, until his transfer to the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, what Mohammed told his CIA interrogators —and, more often, what he refused to tell them —yielded 831 intelligence reports, nearly 15 percent of all such CIA missives sent during in the first years after the 2001 terrorist attacks that killed about 3,000 Americans.

By far the most high-value accused Sept. 11 conspirator captured by the U.S., he was also subjected to the most torture by CIA interrogators, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee summary about the agency's brutal interrogation program.

Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times, received "rectal hydration," was kept awake for 7 ½ days, was made to stand for hours with his hands above his head and was put in a horizontal stress position unapproved by CIA headquarters, the Senate report says.

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"A significant amount" of what Mohammed told the agency during these interrogations "was later identified as fabricated," the report concludes, relying on the CIA's internal assessments at the time of the interrogations. Other times he merely confirmed intelligence already known to the United States or outright lied, later recanting his stories.

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just so people know what was done in our name.

"Let's roll"? Timely catch phrase not only used to start neverending wars.

Horizontal stress position - anything like the rack? Bet Smirky and Unkle Dick liked to watch that.

[Abouttime]

1. Disgusting

Holder and President Obama must prosecute.

[TexasProgresive]

2. And dispite all that "torture"

he never implicated Saddam in 9/11.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I'm interested in seeing

the complete list of things to which KSM confessed. How could the time spent filtering valid info from the BS be considered 'productive' whatsoever?

[earthside]

4. The lie of 'actionable intelligence' by torture ...

... exposed ... again.

The torturers wanted to punish and torture.

Real leaders in our 'Constitutional' republic founded on the Declaration of Independence are supposed to rise above the base, craven desire for revenge in circumstances even like 9/11 and seek truth and justice through courts of law. But Bush-Cheney & Company became no better than Spanish Inquisitors.

Sadly, they have assisted in driving down the standards and morals of the nation, too. The torture inflicted upon Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be popular with most Americans and especially with the Neocon-Tea Party mob. Few 'leaders' and politicians of either major party will speak out against his torture.