The 9/11 trial could force the CIA to disclose its Guantnamo Bay secrets

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Source: The Independent

9 hours ago


In September 2006, a US military C-17 cargo plane arrived at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and deposited 14 new prisoners. The men had previously been held in CIA “black site” prisons around the world, where many were tortured outside the protections of US law. One of them was Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men facing a military tribunal at Gitmo for allegedly aiding the 9/11 hijackers.

Prior to arriving at the island prison, Baluchi was subject to isolation, forced shavings, beatings, dousings with ice water, stress positions including being shackled to a ceiling, and food denial. In one particularly disturbing incident, trainee interrogators formed a line and repeatedly slammed his head against a wall for practice in a technique known as “walling,” leaving him with brain damage, according to a CIA report declassified in 2022.

When he arrived at the island US naval base alongside the 13 others, they were spirited to an equally shadowy lock-up: Camp 7. Camp 7, before it closed in 2021, was the most clandestine part of Gitmo, so closely guarded its exact location, design, and costs were secret. It held some of America’s most high-value detainees, including Baluchi and his uncle, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Nearly two decades after those prisoners arrived at Guantánamo, a new lawsuit could reveal more about what went on inside, and whether it was under the full “operational control” of the CIA.

On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court to take up Connell v CIA, which argues that the intelligence agency was wrongly able to dodge a records request about its ties to Camp 7. What might seem like an arcane legal fight about records policy has the potential to shed new light on one of the ongoing secrets of the War on Terror.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cia-foia-9-11-guantanamo-bay-b2641391.html

[MMBeilis]

1. If the U.S. ever comes up with a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" like South Africa, they are going......

.....to need several soccer stadiums to hold those who need to confess.

[slightlv]

2. I've been saying for a long time that

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission is exactly what we need. There are some dark (not so) secret doings that need to see the light of day if we're ever going to cleanse the soul of this nation.

What Bush did on his War on Terror was criminal, and he should have been brought up on war crimes. He's made it that much worse for our people when they go overseas.

[MMBeilis]

3. Interesting that the original post only got two responses, yours and mine. You would think that....

.....this this subject would garner more attention.

[travelingthrulife]

4. Sounds good to me. Our CIA and FBI let our country fall to fascism.

Why?