CIA Caught Conducting Mock Executions

Evidence has recently come to light which confirms that interrogators have been using mock execution techniques to scaremonger suspects into confession.

One report suggests that gun fire was staged in the room adjoining that of the detainee, suspected to be in association with the USS Cole bombing in order to give the impression that other suspects were being ‘killed off’ for failing to cooperate.

The disclosures were included in the 2004 report by the CIA’s inspector general, which has conveniently been kept secret until its release next week, according to Fox news.

In the case of Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, suspected Cole bomber, interrogators were found to have brought a gun and power dill into the interview session. He was also one of three suspects to be subjected to a technique called ‘waterboarding’, a drowning simulation which was approved by the Bush administration’s justice department in 2002.

Whilst these techniques have been approved, it is also apparent that the regulation contradicts US Anti-torture law which depicts that threatening a prisoner with death is in fact illegal.

The CIA’s spokesman has announced that they do not condone, or endorse the behavior displayed by the interrogators and explained that the actions taken by the so-called interviewers was “beyond formal guidance.”

There is a current dispute regarding whether the report should be under criminal investigation, President Barack Obama has allegedly reported that he would prefer to leave the issues in the past, indicating that no further action should be taken.

In 2007, CIA interrogator David Passaro was found guilty of beating a prisoner to death in Afghanistan. It is becoming apparent that this is a regular occurrence in the extraction of confessions.

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