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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:36 AM Dec 2014

THE CHARMED LIFE OF A CIA TORTURER


Matthew Zirbel’s home in Great Falls, Virginia is filled with oriental carpets, perhaps collected from his time spent working in countries like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. The million dollar home has “LOTS of “WOW!” You will “Oooh & Ahhh”, says this recent description on Zillow.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10601-Wise-Owl-Way-Great-Falls-VA-22066/51700093_zpid/

This isn’t the first time Zirbel’s surroundings have wowed someone. Over a decade ago, Zirbel, then a junior CIA officer, was in charge of the Salt Pit, a “black site” in Afghanistan referred to in the recent Senate torture report as “Cobalt,” where detainees were routinely brutalized and which one visitor described as a “dungeon.” A delegation from the Federal Bureau of Prisons was “WOW’ed” by the Salt Pit’s sensory deprivation techniques, and a CIA interrogator said that prisoners there “literally looked like (dogs)that had been kenneled,” according to the report.

In fact, one of the most horrifying stories – and there are many – in the Senate report on torture takes place in the Salt Pit, where Gul Rahman was murdered by the U.S. government in November 2002

Rahman, an Afghan, was rendered to the Salt Pit in the fall of 2002 after being apprehended in Pakistan. At that time the torture center was being run by a man referred to as “CIA Officer 1” in the Senate report. News outlets have not named him in covering the report but he has previously been identified as Zirbel, after the government accidentally included his name in a report that had been declassified.






bring your barf bucket for the rest:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/15/charmed-life-cia-torturer/
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THE CHARMED LIFE OF A CIA TORTURER (Original Post) kpete Dec 2014 OP
The Intercept is doing some good reporting. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #1
I'm glad these child rapists and torturers are being exposed. 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #2
These monsters.... sgtbenobo Dec 2014 #3
Recommend read..for exposing the Profiteers of Torture... KoKo Dec 2014 #4
The United States of America SamKnause Dec 2014 #5
+100 NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #10
K&R Solly Mack Dec 2014 #6
Only the best for our proud men in uniform. Downwinder Dec 2014 #7
Is he a Republican? Octafish Dec 2014 #8
I always wonder about these people, when they settle into their 1800 thread count sheets Arugula Latte Dec 2014 #9
Torturer's Cribs. CJCRANE Dec 2014 #11
How does a CIA agent pay for a million plus dollar house? hootinholler Dec 2014 #12
K&R! KoKo Dec 2014 #13
kick woo me with science Dec 2014 #14

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. The Intercept is doing some good reporting.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:44 AM
Dec 2014

It is now my go to page in the am, as well as a couple of other news sites.
And DU, of course.

 

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
2. I'm glad these child rapists and torturers are being exposed.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:45 AM
Dec 2014

I wonder long until they start taking out each other. These cretins raped children in front of their parents, so I have no doubt that they wouldn't hesitate to take out each other to keep their evil deeds out of sight and out of mind.

 

sgtbenobo

(327 posts)
3. These monsters....
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:58 AM
Dec 2014

....are still on the loose too.

Two private military contractors are being investigated for their role in torture allegations at the Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq: CACI International, Inc. from Arlington, Virginia, and Titan of San Diego, California. CACI supplied at least one interrogator while Titan supplied at least two translators named in a 53-page classified internal Army report written by Major General Antonio Taguba that have dominated news coverage all over the world.

A total of four men -- Steven Stephanowicz, John Israel, Torin Nelson and Adel Nakhla -- are named in the report. All of them were assigned to work with the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, a unit that is currently stationed in Germany and Italy in support of V Corps, under the command of Colonel Thomas Pappas.



This case is back in the courts. But, this doesn't mean anything will ever stick. Which is why people around the world say to themselves, "Things were bad. Then the Americans came and things got much worse."


Carry on.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=10828

SamKnause

(13,037 posts)
5. The United States of America
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:26 AM
Dec 2014

has proven that;

Illegal invasions pay; (Halliburton, GE, Northrop, Blackwater aka XE, aka Academi LLC, etc.)

Crime pays; (Wall Street, mortgage providers, The New York Stock Exchange, corporations evading their taxes)

Torture pays; (81 Million dollars for two CIA torture corporations, donations for politicians that support torture, book revenues for ex president and vice president)

Incarcerating your citizens pays; (private prisons, police kick backs, slave labor)

It appears that everything that is evil and vile can be turned into a business in the U.S., and the revenues are extremely profitable.



 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
9. I always wonder about these people, when they settle into their 1800 thread count sheets
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:20 PM
Dec 2014

at night, right before they fade off to sleep, do they have a little twinge? Something at the back of their minds? A little stab of regret, a little bit of sorrow, quickly tamped down, of course, for how they've conducted themselves in life?

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)
12. How does a CIA agent pay for a million plus dollar house?
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:59 PM
Dec 2014

Let alone furnish it with Persian carpets, etc.

Aren't these guys on the GS schedule?

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