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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture--"Open Society Report" --Spencer Ackerman
John Brennan needs to GO!--------------------
More Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture
By Spencer Ackerman-- 02.05.13
In the years after 9/11, the CIA ran a worldwide program to hold and interrogate suspected members of al-Qaida, sometimes brutally. It wasnt alone: The agency had literally dozens of partners that helped in ways large and small. Only its never been clear just how many nations enabled CIA capture and torture; cooperated with it; or carried it out on behalf of the U.S. until now.
A new report from the Open Society Foundation details the CIAs effort to outsource torture since 9/11 in excruciating detail. Known as extraordinary rendition, the practice concerns taking detainees to and from U.S. custody without a legal process think of it like an off-the-books extradition and often entailed handing detainees over to countries that practiced torture. The Open Society Foundation found that 136 people went through the post-9/11 extraordinary rendition, and 54 countries were complicit in it.
The full 54 countries that aided in post-9/11 renditions: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. The Open Society Foundation doesnt rule out additional ones being involved that it has yet to discover.
Singh and the Open Society Foundation dont presume that the CIA is out of the extraordinary renditions game under Obama. Danger Room pal Jeremy Scahill recently toured a prison in Somalia that the CIA uses. While Obama issued an executive order in 2009 to get the CIA out of the detentions business, the order did not apply to facilities used for short term, transitory detention. The Obama administration says it wont transfer detainees to countries without a pledge from a host government not to torture them but Syrias Assad made exactly that pledge to the U.S. before torturing Maher Arar.
Much of this is likely to be contained in the Senate intelligence committees recent report into CIA torture. Its unclear when, if ever, that report will be declassified. But the Open Society Foundations study into renditions comes right as Obama aide John Brennan already under pressure to clarify his role, if any, in post-9/11 torture is about to testify to the panel ahead of becoming CIA director. It remains to be seen if the Senate committee will ask Brennan to clarify if the CIA still practices extraordinary rendition, along with its old friends.
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More Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture--"Open Society Report" --Spencer Ackerman (Original Post)
KoKo
Dec 2014
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(4,111 posts)1. so is it any wonder why these countries
would not vehemently demand that the Bush admin be brought up on war crimes charges? They are fucking complicit..