Government admits filming torture of Gitmo inmate, alleged 9/11 plotter

Source: Raw Story

Government admits filming torture of Gitmo inmate, alleged 9/11 plotter

By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, October 5th, 2009 -- 3:38 pm


The United States government admitted on Monday that the torture of a Saudi man alleged to be part of the 9/11 plot was recorded on video, according to court documents procured by the Center for Constitutional Rights.

The tapes, allegedly showing the torture of Mohammed al Qahtani, 31, have long been kept under wraps, but a discovery motion for video of his interrogations led the court to acknowledge their existence and order their release.

"The videotapes the government is required to produce will reveal the time period at the end of three months of intensive solitary confinement and isolation that immediately preceded the implementation of the 'First Special Interrogation Plan,' a regime of systematic torture techniques approved by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for use against Mr. al Qahtani," claimed a CCR media advisory.

Lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights have represented Qahtani since 2005. The accused 9/11 plotter has been a Guantanamo inmate since 2002.

According to Susan Crawford, convening authority at the Office of Military Commissions, "We tortured Qahtani."

Read more: http://rawstory.com/2009/10/government-admits-recording-torture-of-alleged-911-plotter/

unprosecuted war crimes

before torture becomes institutionalized, and we become its victims.

it becomes that much more institutionalized.....

people just shrugging it off and promising to do better isn't good enough...it never will be good enough

another 4 and it would have been the end of America

mention whether the American economy will survive what Reagan began and what they upped to the nth degree--Enron, Halliburton, Blackwater, etc. etc. etc.

Worst. President. Ever.

Worst. Vice President. Ever.

Worst. Political. Party. Philosophy. Ever.

K&R