Guantanamo

Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo

2006-09-06 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

President George W. Bush publicly acknowledges for the first time that the CIA has been operating secret prisons to hold and interrogate terrorism suspects, confirming what journalists and human rights organizations had been reporting for years. In a White House speech, Bush admits that “a …

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Abu Zubaydah - Waterboarded 83 Times, Tortured for Years, Never Charged with Any Crime

2003-03-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Abu Zubaydah remains held in U.S. custody more than two decades after his capture in Pakistan in March 2002, despite never being charged with any crime. Zubaydah was the CIA’s first “high-value detainee” and the primary test subject for the torture program, waterboarded 83 times …

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