Monday, 20 April 2015, NEW YORK, NY - "Retro Report" a series of video documentaries on major past news stories' impact today has brought attention to the case of remorseless CIA contractor David A. Passaro who served a six-plus year federal prison term prosecuted by the Department of Justice under the Patriot Act of all things for admittedly without training in interrogation techniques in 2003 beating Afghan farmer Abdul Wali with his fists as well as a heavy flashlight and groin kicks for information continuing despite Mr. Wali's pleas "to be shot" until his death two days later at an American military base in Afghanistan. Passaro maintains that he "wasn't hired to be nice to these terrorists" but that he "was there to get a job done" which he claims he did.
Mr. Passaro's conviction is the only known CIA torture-related conviction to date even after the December 2014 release four months ago of the Senate Intelligence Committee's executive summary of its "Torture Report" concluding that the Bush Administration CIA routinely systematically committed many sick and grotesque acts of torture against "detainees" in violation of United States and international law finding however that the CIA's torture practices were "high in brutality and low in effectiveness". Even the CIA-controlled confinement conditions of detainees at Guantanamo Bay (much less CIA "black sites") shocked visitors from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons who despite not being known for their compassion for federal inmates said they never had seen such brutal conditions of confinement "deprivation" of prisoners in their lives.
Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement at the time of Mr. Passaro's grand jury indictment that "criminal acts of brutality and violence against detainees" would not be tolerated has to date not yet shown itself to be true as Bush hack White House Counsel later hack U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales found that the Geneva Conventions conveniently did not apply to CIA torture of detainees which legal opinion later was endorsed by CIA General Counsel John "Goodfella" Rizzo in reality endorsing years of a CIA untrained unsupervised employee and contractor free-for-all basically pointlessly torturing indefinitely kept without charges "detainees" with whatever torture technique came to their twisted minds including "rectal hydration" and "rectal feeding" and at least in one case killing a detainee by exposure chaining him overnight to a freezing cement floor which presumably elicited minimal information although collectively served as a terrific "recruitment" billboard for terrorist organizations according to several U.S. Senators.
Despite President Obama's naive informal assurance to officials of CIA personnel immunity from prosecution if they in "good faith" adhered to the bogus legal opinions purporting to justify torture set forth in memos which President Obama then publically released CIA officials and personnel clearly had not adhered even to the confines of those memos at all. The need for the criminal prosecution for torture war crimes against humanity at home and/or abroad of Bush Administration and CIA officials, personnel and contractors has been clearly documented for all the world to see including in the Senate Torture Report most of which remains to be released as well as the so-called "Panetta Report" the history of which is addressed in a previous Ninth Amendment post. Former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney upon release of the Senate Torture Report summary demonstrated the future danger he may pose to others by defiantly stating he would commit acts of torture "again" if given the opportunity although there may be certain countries he presumably would refrain from visiting due for fear of immediate prosecution.
[UPDATED] Readers interested in more information about the above can go to the link directly below which includes Retro Report CIA torture videos. Readers interested in the horrifying but true saga of the two totally unqualified even untrained in interrogation psychologists James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen who were paid $180 million by the CIA to design the CIA's so-called "enhanced interrogation" torture program which the CIA's chief of interrogations after seeing the plans Mitchell and Elmer came up with wrote to CIA colleagues that "[t]his is a train wreak [sic] waiting to happen and I intend to get the hell off the train before it happens" according to the Senate Torture Report can go to the Vanity Fair article at the second link below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/a-singular-conviction-amid-the-debate-on-torture-and-terrorism.html?_r=0
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/daily-news/2014/12/psychologists-cia-torture-report
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
Mr. Passaro's conviction is the only known CIA torture-related conviction to date even after the December 2014 release four months ago of the Senate Intelligence Committee's executive summary of its "Torture Report" concluding that the Bush Administration CIA routinely systematically committed many sick and grotesque acts of torture against "detainees" in violation of United States and international law finding however that the CIA's torture practices were "high in brutality and low in effectiveness". Even the CIA-controlled confinement conditions of detainees at Guantanamo Bay (much less CIA "black sites") shocked visitors from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons who despite not being known for their compassion for federal inmates said they never had seen such brutal conditions of confinement "deprivation" of prisoners in their lives.
Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement at the time of Mr. Passaro's grand jury indictment that "criminal acts of brutality and violence against detainees" would not be tolerated has to date not yet shown itself to be true as Bush hack White House Counsel later hack U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales found that the Geneva Conventions conveniently did not apply to CIA torture of detainees which legal opinion later was endorsed by CIA General Counsel John "Goodfella" Rizzo in reality endorsing years of a CIA untrained unsupervised employee and contractor free-for-all basically pointlessly torturing indefinitely kept without charges "detainees" with whatever torture technique came to their twisted minds including "rectal hydration" and "rectal feeding" and at least in one case killing a detainee by exposure chaining him overnight to a freezing cement floor which presumably elicited minimal information although collectively served as a terrific "recruitment" billboard for terrorist organizations according to several U.S. Senators.
Despite President Obama's naive informal assurance to officials of CIA personnel immunity from prosecution if they in "good faith" adhered to the bogus legal opinions purporting to justify torture set forth in memos which President Obama then publically released CIA officials and personnel clearly had not adhered even to the confines of those memos at all. The need for the criminal prosecution for torture war crimes against humanity at home and/or abroad of Bush Administration and CIA officials, personnel and contractors has been clearly documented for all the world to see including in the Senate Torture Report most of which remains to be released as well as the so-called "Panetta Report" the history of which is addressed in a previous Ninth Amendment post. Former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney upon release of the Senate Torture Report summary demonstrated the future danger he may pose to others by defiantly stating he would commit acts of torture "again" if given the opportunity although there may be certain countries he presumably would refrain from visiting due for fear of immediate prosecution.
[UPDATED] Readers interested in more information about the above can go to the link directly below which includes Retro Report CIA torture videos. Readers interested in the horrifying but true saga of the two totally unqualified even untrained in interrogation psychologists James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen who were paid $180 million by the CIA to design the CIA's so-called "enhanced interrogation" torture program which the CIA's chief of interrogations after seeing the plans Mitchell and Elmer came up with wrote to CIA colleagues that "[t]his is a train wreak [sic] waiting to happen and I intend to get the hell off the train before it happens" according to the Senate Torture Report can go to the Vanity Fair article at the second link below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/a-singular-conviction-amid-the-debate-on-torture-and-terrorism.html?_r=0
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/daily-news/2014/12/psychologists-cia-torture-report
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
