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Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions (Oh the horror! /sarc)
msnbc ^ | 8/21/2009 | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff

Posted on 08/21/2009 6:09:00 PM PDT by tobyhill

A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency's post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.

According to two sources—one who has read a draft of the paper and one who was briefed on it—the report describes how one detainee, suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while discussing sensitive information, Nashiri's interrogators brandished the gun in an effort to convince him that he was going to be shot. Interrogators also turned on a power drill and held it near him. "The purpose was to scare him into giving [information] up," said one of the sources. A federal law banning the use of torture expressly forbids threatening a detainee with "imminent death."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alnashiri; cia; democrats; gwot; impeachobama; interrogation; nashiri; obama; usscole; wot
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1 posted on 08/21/2009 6:09:00 PM PDT by tobyhill
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That’s bothersome... “Mock” execution. Why a mock one? Execute one or two and they’ll fight to get to the front of the line to give up friends/plans/whatever. Then execute one and say his story was made up... this is a good time to clarify the confessions....


2 posted on 08/21/2009 6:12:00 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: tobyhill
The CIA stuff was all fake, but Fur Shur I could use a power drill on Isikoff without much prompting. I've got some nearly foot long highspeed machine drills suitible for cutting holes in engine blocks ~ and they'd go right in cleaner'n snot ~ cut through bone, cartilege, gristle, phlegm, bile and whatever.

All voluntary stuff though. I wouldn't want to do that to some guy you needed to tie down.

3 posted on 08/21/2009 6:13:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: theDentist

That’s bothersome... “Mock” execution. Why a mock one? Execute one or two and they’ll fight to get to the front of the line to give up friends/plans/whatever. Then execute one and say his story was made up... this is a good time to clarify the confessions....

Sewing the dead one up in a pigskin in front of the live one wouldn’t hurt either.
Jack


4 posted on 08/21/2009 6:15:55 PM PDT by btcusn
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To: theDentist
Exactly. Interrogations are supposed to be scary otherwise no one would ever give up info.
5 posted on 08/21/2009 6:16:51 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obama wants to pull the plug on grandma)
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To: tobyhill

You can bet the Scarecrow of the House will have her tighty whiteys in a bunch over this report.


6 posted on 08/21/2009 6:20:54 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: tobyhill

The Democrats and Democrat media behave in real life EXACTLY the way they do in Vince Flynn novels.


7 posted on 08/21/2009 6:21:03 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Health Care Reform has met the DEATH Panel.)
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To: tobyhill

They threatened him with a gun. Thats not a mock execution.

Mock executions, ask any Cuban who’s done time, they’ll tell you about mock executions. Threatening to shoot someone if he doesn’t talk, brother, after 911 that would be a promise, not a threat.


8 posted on 08/21/2009 6:21:34 PM PDT by marron
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To: tobyhill

Again, just to mark the occasion, we have Democrats giving up classified information during wartime.


9 posted on 08/21/2009 6:23:21 PM PDT by marron
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To: tobyhill

Just the sound of a wood chipper would make most sons of allah give up everything including their lunch. ;-)


10 posted on 08/21/2009 6:23:53 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama? Not so much.)
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To: tobyhill
Let me see if I have this straight:

This article, which relies on statements from unidentified sources, was co-written by Michael Isikoff.

Wasn't it Michael Isikoff who wrote the article falsely claiming that the American military flushed a Koran down the toilet in Guantanamo? Didn't that story end up getting people killed by Islamist fanatics?

So, tell me again, why should I believe any of the allegations in the article? And, how many people are going to be murdered by Islamist fanatics as a result of this article?

11 posted on 08/21/2009 6:23:56 PM PDT by Zeppo (Save the cheerleader, save the world...)
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To: theDentist
Just another MSM generated distraction to get the Rats off the hook for their failed Government Controlled Healthcare plans.
They can only reach for the Blame Bush play for so long before people figure it out.
12 posted on 08/21/2009 6:24:16 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obama wants to pull the plug on grandma)
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To: Zeppo
I sure hope they did everything written in the article because according to the article they got good info.
13 posted on 08/21/2009 6:27:08 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obama wants to pull the plug on grandma)
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To: muawiyah
For field expedient use, the manual kit is better.


14 posted on 08/21/2009 6:34:42 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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Hmmm, good choice ~ a brace and bit ~ get up in their face Fur Shur.

I have a hub drill that was used to drive a hole into a piece of wood that would then be turned on a hub lathe.

Now that's a drill!

15 posted on 08/21/2009 6:41:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: tobyhill

Too bad they were “mock”. Should have been real ones.


16 posted on 08/21/2009 6:43:19 PM PDT by rep-always
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To: muawiyah

Now that’s a drill!

Indeed!

Check the url of my posted image...it’s the other half of the joke.

Sort of like Lubyanka being situated across from Children’s World in Moscow.


17 posted on 08/21/2009 6:44:04 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: tobyhill

That’s ALL ??? What a WASTE of good talent... we need several REAL Executions... I can think of several Congressmen You could START WITH.


18 posted on 08/21/2009 6:47:32 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - To Conservatives, a WARNING - to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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To: tobyhill

Oh, the “inhumanity” of this - unlike say, the genuine executions of Daniel Pearl, the airmen in Black Hawk Down or our men dragged through the streets of Iraq.


19 posted on 08/21/2009 6:48:30 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: btcusn

**Sewing the dead one up in a pigskin in front of the live one wouldn’t hurt either.**

Especially after making them watch the skinning of the still moving pig. 1 pig to EFF up the day of several Muzzies... Small price to pay... or put it to use and Barbeque it for the troops.


20 posted on 08/21/2009 6:50:14 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - To Conservatives, a WARNING - to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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