Report: CIA Deputy Director Helped Cover Up Detainee Death

[kpete]

Source: Washington Independent

Report: CIA Deputy Director Helped Cover Up Detainee Death
By Spencer Ackerman 4/1/10 10:16 AM

That’s a shocking account about Steve Kappes, then the powerful associate deputy CIA director for operations, provided by The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein in a new Washingtonian profile of the powerful and widely respected deputy director:

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*****According to an internal investigation, (Kappes) helped tailor the agency’s paper trail regarding the death of a detainee at a secret CIA interrogation facility in Afghanistan, known internally as the Salt Pit.

The detainee froze to death after being doused with water, stripped naked, and left alone overnight, according to reports in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He was secretly buried and his death kept “off-the-books,” the Post said.

According to two former officials who read a CIA inspector general’s report on the incident, Kappes coached the base chief—whose identity is being withheld at the request of the CIA—on how to respond to the agency’s investigators. They would report it as an accident.*****

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A CIA spokesman vigorously denied all aspects of that account to Stein, whose sources stand by it. I am filing a Freedom of Information Act request this morning for the CIA inspector general’s report allegedly implicating Kappes in the Salt Pit death.

Read more: http://washingtonindependent.com/81174/report-cia-deputy-director-helped-cover-up-detainee-death

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1. K&R

[chill_wind]

2. K & R for reporting at The Washington Independent.

eom

[Stuart G]

3. K and R

[Solly Mack]

4. People, myself included, tried to tell others about Stephen Kappes

long before now....how he needs to be investigated for his role in detainee torture/abuse/murder.

K&R

[Soylent Brice]

5. K&R

[unc70]

6. Who does he think he is, the Pope?

n/t

[movonne]

11. That made me smile...

[katandmoon]

7. K&R for FOIA request. THIS is what Obama's DOJ is protecting.

[No Elephants]

8. Keep looking forward?

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. "secret CIA interrogation facility in Afghanistan"

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so who exactly are the terrorists now . . . ?

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CIA interrogation facility

makes one ponder

[Supersedeas]

10. reminds me of the pink shirt that Agent Kirakou wore during his ABC interview

[EFerrari]

12. K&R

[librechik]

13. kick

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