Torture: "The Clean Team"

[kpete]

How MI5 colluded in my torture: Binyam Mohamed claims British agents fed Moroccan torturers their questions - WORLD EXCLUSIVE

By David Rose
Last updated at 5:01 PM on 08th March 2009
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Mohamed was finally 'rendered' by the CIA again in January 2004 and taken to Afghanistan. He says the agents he met there responded with horror.

'When I got to Kabul a female agent started taking close-up pictures of my genitals. She was shocked.

'When they removed my diaper she could see blood was still oozing from the cuts on my penis.

'For the first two weeks they had me on antibiotics and they took pictures of my genitals every day.

'They told me, "This is not for us. It's for Washington." They wanted to be sure it was healing.'

Then came his ordeal in the dark prison. Mohamed says the thrust of his interrogations had changed.

Since he made his fantastical confession, the Americans wanted him to become a prosecution witness in their system of special military commissions, against Al Qaeda bigwigs he had never met.

He reached Guantanamo in September 2004.

There, the interrogations continued but there had been another shift.

He says: 'They said they were worried I would tell the court that I had only confessed through torture. They said now they needed me to say it freely.

'We called them the clean team, they wanted to say they had got this stuff from a clean interrogation.'

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more shocking (or maybe not anymore) at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160238/How-MI5-colluded-torture-Binyam-Mohamed-claims-British-agents-fed-Moroccan-torturers-questions--WORLD-EXCLUSIVE.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

the use of clean teams has been reported before

in an attempt to "cleanse" "evidence" gained from torture


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021100572.html


"FBI and military interrogators who began work with the suspects in late 2006 called themselves the "Clean Team" and set as their goal the collection of virtually the same information the CIA had obtained from five of the six through duress at secret prisons.

To ensure that the data would not be tainted by allegations of torture or illegal coercion, the FBI and military team won the suspects' trust over the past 16 months by using time-tested rapport-building techniques, the officials said. "

and from Binyam Mohamed's case, we know that clean teams were in use well before 2006

[Demeter]

2. No Comment

My stomach won't permit.

[Wednesdays]

3. K&R

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[BunkerHill24]

4. K&R

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[jeanpalmer]

5. The daily mail article is interesting.

In reading all the various sources and accounts on torture, you come to realise that CIA interrogation program is run by a collection of simple-minded incompetents, thugs and brutal sadists. They're on the same level professionally as mob enforcers. They lack any ability to identify people with significant information or the effective lawful tools or approaches that will lawfully secure the information. Their entire approach to the problem is one of torture and brute force. They remind me of the German Brown Shirts brigades -- same twisted mentality, same ignorance, same willingness to beat up and torture people, same lack of morality.

That's why Obama's job #1 should be to identify them and get rid of them. These asshole torturers are employees of our government. We can't afford to have people like that in the government. That sadistic mentality, along with the ignorance and stupidity, must be eradicated from the Government. Get it done.