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How U.S. Prison Officials Rubberstamped a CIA Torture Chamber
Loaded on Aug. 28, 2015
by Carl Takei
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2015, page 42
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints,
CIA.
Locations:
Afghanistan,
United States of America.
How U.S. Prison Officials Rubberstamped a CIA Torture Chamber
by Carl Takei, ACLU National Prison Project
The CIA’s chief interrogator called it “the closest thing he has seen to a dungeon.”
At the agency’s COBALT detention site in Afghanistan – also known as the “Salt Pit” …
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