http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/24/cia-threatened-detainee-families/CIA report reveals interrogator threatened to kill detainee’s children.
A newly-declassified CIA report reveals that U.S. interrogators threatened to kill the children of a key terror suspect. The 2004 CIA Inspector General report, which examined the CIA’s treatment of terror detainees, has now been declassified as part of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union:
The document, released Monday by the Justice Department, says one interrogator said a colleague had told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that if any other attacks happened in the United States, “We’re going to kill your children.”
Another interrogator allegedly tried to convince a different terror suspect detainee that his mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him - though the interrogator in question denied making such a threat.
Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases involving CIA interrogators and contractors who may have violated anti-torture laws. Holder will reportedly name John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut, to lead the inquiry.
Update CIA Director Leon Panetta, who has reportedly been engaged in an angry confrontation with the White House over this issue, called the release of the inspector general’s report on abuses “an old story” and said “the challenge is not the battles of yesterday, but those of today and tomorrow.”
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