Tapes show interrogation of 9/11 suspect Binalshibh, US says

[maddezmom]

Source: BBC

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But a US official downplayed their significance, saying they "show a guy sitting at a desk answering questions".

They are said to be the only recordings from a defunct CIA secret jail network.

The US government has said the CIA destroyed 92 videotapes of interrogations of terror suspects, but the Associated Press reported two videotapes and an audiotape were discovered under a desk in 2007 at an agency office.

A CIA spokesman declined to answer questions about the tapes, but said the agency's "past detention programme has been subject to multiple reviews by multiple government organisations under two administrations".


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11002399

[dipsydoodle]

1. a defunct CIA secret jail network ?

Isn't part of the issue exactly how he got to Morocco wherever ?

[Hubert Flottz]

2. K&R

[fasttense]

3. Seems somehow too convenient.

The CIA, defying a judges order, claims to destroy all the interrogation tapes. Then suddenly, out of the blue, or out from under a desk, they find some tapes that were not destroyed. And they show "a guy sitting at a desk answering questions".

See, the CIA didn't really torture. Just look at the tapes they didn't destroy. It's just a guy answering questions. See how kind and gentle they were to the POWs.

How convenient.

[Soylent Brice]

4. oh well, that clears it all righ up then. he was just sitting at a desk having

a bagel and coffee with those nice CIA fellas. oh, and he can teleport himself too.

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[Robb]

5. More:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100817/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_cia_videotapes

...If the tapes surfaced at Binalshibh's trial, they could highlight Morocco's role in a counterterrorism program known as Greystone, which authorized the CIA to hold terrorists in secret prisons and shuttle them to other countries.

The American Civil Liberties Union has asked the government to provide more information about the tapes as part of a long-running lawsuit involving the treatment of detainees.

"Today's report is a stark reminder of how much information the government is still withholding about the Bush administration's interrogation policies," said Alexander Abdo, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project.

More significantly to the 38-year-old terror suspect's defense, the tapes also could provide evidence of Binalshibh's mental state within the first months of his capture. In court documents, defense lawyers have been asking for medical records to see whether his years in CIA custody made him mentally unstable. He is being treated for schizophrenia with a potent cocktail of anti-psychotic medications....