http://www.truth-out.org/cia-says-zubaydahs-torture-drawings-remain-top-secret/1317822688In 2002, not long after he was subjected to so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" by Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, psychologists under contract to the CIA, high-value detainee Abu Zubaydah made about ten drawings depicting the torture he endured while in custody of the agency.
The drawings Zubaydah made were classified as top secret by the CIA. But according to two counterterrorism officials, one of the drawings Zubaydah had sketched captured in incredible detail the waterboarding sessions he underwent. Another drawing showed him being chained by his wrists to the ceiling of a CIA black site prison where he was held and another showed him strapped to a chair and being doused with water as part of his sleep deprivation program.
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Zubaydah's "artwork is very detailed right down to the straps that were used when he was on the waterboard and almost looks like a photograph," said one of the counterterrorism officials, who requested anonymity in order to discuss classified material.
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The government "has destroyed 92 videotapes of CIA interrogations, suppressed 2,000 photographs of abuse throughout Afghanistan and Iraq, and even classified the detainees’ own accounts of their mistreatment at proceedings in Guantanamo," Abdo said. "This selective suppression of evidence has allowed the government to perpetuate the myth that the abuse of detainees was aberrational, when it was, in fact, the result of policy decisions made at the highest levels of our government. And it allows advocates of torture and mistreatment to obscure the truly horrific nature of the mistreatment authorized by the Bush administration."
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america, the country that tortured and now protects the torturers. (wait now, do we still torture?)
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