Attorney General Eric Holder is considering appointing a prosecutor to investigate a CIA interrogation program.
President Obama's Attorney-General Eric Holder is expected to make clear whether he will appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged abuse by CIA officials
CIA interrogators threatened an al Qaeda prisoner with a gun and an electric drill to try to scare him into giving up information, according to a long-concealed inspector-general's report due to be made public on Monday, sources familiar with the report confirmed to CNN.
The gun and drill were used in two separate interrogation sessions against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, one of the sources said. Al-Nashiri is accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.
The alleged crimes and abuses carried out under the Bush Administration will take centre stage today with the release of a report detailing brutal CIA interrogations, a document that could trigger criminal investigations later this week.
The CIA inspector-general’s report claims that the harsh interrogation of terror suspects was ineffective, and produced no valuable intelligence.
In another episode, a gunshot was fired in a room next to a detainee to make the prisoner believe another suspect had been executed. It is illegal under US torture statutes to threaten a detainee with imminent death.
Democrats are particularly focused on Bush-era Justice Department officials who wrote legal opinions for the CIA that justified techniques including waterboarding, and who claimed that threats of imminent death were legal if they did not cause permanent mental harm.
Mr al-Nashiri’s interrogation sessions were videotaped, but the tapes were destroyed by CIA officials in 2005. A federal prosecutor is now investigating the circusmtances of their destruction.
Other documents expected to be released today include memos that former Vice-President Dick Cheney has said prove that harsh interrogation techniques produced valuable intelligence about al-Qaeda.
Mr Cheney said earlier this year that he had seen documents containing evidence that lives had been saved because of “enhanced” interrogations. If such a document emerges today the emotive debate about the effectiveness of torture will be reignited.
------------------President Bush acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial.
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They disappeared: Are they dead? Are they alive? Some were in secret CIA prisons in Europe and the United States, tortured with the help of several nations. Some who survived the Western torture are being released due to international pressure, and the Red Cross this week presented an International Red Cross Report about Torture in secret CIA prisons globally. The secret prisons and torture were probaly located in Europe and the United States, but both sides refuse to give any comment on this issue.
Senior CIA official Mary O. McCarthy couldn't take it anymore and provided classified information about CIA secret prisons in Europe to The Washington Post's Dana Priest. After that the CIA fired him, and refusing any further comment about the existence of the "black sites" in Europe. Europe also refuses to give any comment
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