Interrogator details pre-Abu Ghraib abuses

[Barrett808]

Source: Associated Press

Interrogator details pre-Abu Ghraib abuses
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
Thu Sep 25, 1:32 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A military interrogation expert, Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, told Congress on Thursday that prior to the abuses at Abu Ghraib, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions.

One of those interrogations was conducted by an Air Force civilian and a contractor employed by the same organization, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which had sent a small team to Iraq in September 2003 to help a special forces task force make its interrogations of stubborn prisoners more effective.

Kleinman told the Senate Armed Services Committee that his two colleagues forcibly stripped an Iraqi prisoner naked, shackled him, and left him standing in a dank, six-foot cement cell with orders to the guards that the prisoner was not to move for 12 hours. They could intervene only if he passed out, Kleinman said his two colleagues told the guards.

Had the prisoner passed out, he would have hit his head on a wall, Kleinman said.

Kleinman put a stop to the interrogation.

"Until their time in Iraq they had never seen a real world interrogation," he said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_interrogation

[bobthedrummer]

1. "In Contravention of Conventional Wisdom: CIA 'no touch' torture makes sense out of mind control

allegations" by Cheryl Welsh (Jan.2008 Mind Justice)
http://www.mindjustice.org/wisdom.htm

[bertman]

2. Thank you, Colonel Kleinman, for stepping forward at great personal risk to expose these fascist

bastards for what they are.

[TrogL]

3. Isn't "Air Force civilian" a contradiction in terms?

[bobthedrummer]

4. "Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin" by Pratap Chatterjee (Corp Watch 11-4-2005)

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12757

So there are private intelligence agencies that have Directors as well as all the government intelligence agencies that have directors or military commanders-so guess what The DECIDER signed at the end of July just before heading off to the Olympics? It was another Executive Order.

"A new Bush executive order (EO) includes an old waiver that allows human subject protections to be modified or waived by intelligence agency directors in complete secrecy."

Imagine Jeffery Dahmer as a private intelligence agency Director...The DECIDER's subcontracted loyal Bushies can make a profit selling the videos in the snuff flick/S&M hardcore market and donate part of it to the RNC-of course anyone discussing this must be neutralized.

"Nonconsensual experiments are unconstitutional but recent changes in law allow just that" by Cheryl Welsh (August 2008 Mind Justice)
http://www.mindjustice.org/unconstitutional.htm

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[bobthedrummer]

6. "money trumps peace, sometimes..." kick

[Supersedeas]

8. greed is....capitalism and the working class will fight their wars and bail out their banks

[bobthedrummer]

7. .