UPDATED: CIA Torture Videos Retro Report Fuels Attention To Sole "Torture-Related" CIA Conviction To Date Untrained "Contractor" Who For Two Days Beat Afghan Farmer Including With Heavy Flashlight And Groin Kicks To Death Sentenced To Six Year Prison Term After DOJ Patriot Act Prosecution

     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

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RE-UPDATED: Cheney Blackwater Thugs Sentenced To Life And 30-Year Prison Terms For 2007 Slaughter Of 14 Iraqi Civilians Wounding 17 Others

     Tuesday, 14 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Although former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney has yet to be brought to justice in the United States or overseas for his central role in Bush-Cheney Administration CIA torture war crimes against humanity about which acts of torture Cheney upon release of a summary of the United States Senate Torture Report stated he would "do it again" if given the chance to commit further acts of torture nevertheless the noose does appear to be tightening with the conviction and sentencing of at least some of the first of Cheney's worldwide criminal conspiracy of the several times since renamed Blackwater "Blackdeath" contractor thugs made up among others of mercenaries, felons, early release violent prisoners, psychopaths, sadists, the dishonorably discharged, murderers, assassins and the criminally insane four of whom have been brought to justice in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court where the four Blackwater "guards" were convicted last year of a host of extremely violent crimes stemming from the horrific slaughter unleashed by them in 2007 upon innocent Iraqi unarmed civilians killing 14 and injuring 17 others who were caught in a traffic circle in Baghdad's crowded Nisoor Square in what was called a "wartime atrocity".
     Cheney's Blackwater "Blackdeath" contract ex-guard killer former army sniper Nicholas A. Slatten convicted of murder last year was sentenced to life in U.S. federal prison for his role in the slaughter which ignited worldwide outrage and belated wonderment among many as to why Cheney's homicidal maniacs were engaged at all by the U.S. Government to serve in various misnamed roles such as "guards" as well as paid allegedly with cash in the form of palettes of U.S. $100 bills lowered from helicopters for a great many grossly inadequate incomplete construction projects in Iraq which put United States armed forces at increased risk of death and injury due to late and or fraudulently shoddily or never completed projects such as airstrips.
     The other Cheney Blackwater "Blackdeath" contract ex-guard killers Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty and Paul Slough faced multiple counts of manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and using firearms while committing a felony for which they also were convicted in the Washington, D.C. Federal Court last year for their roles in the slaughter of the Iraqi civilians. Prosecutors argued in a daylong hearing that 30-year sentences were not harsh enough as the defendants had continued to maintain their innocence and expressed no remorse claiming they were "under attack" although they had been convicted on the finding that their homicidal rampage was an entirely unprovoked ambush unleashed upon Iraqi civilians caught in traffic.
     Defense attorneys asked for leniency for the killers who repeatedly invoked religion including citing "God as my witness", exoneration in "this life and the next", as well as Dustin Heard telling the judge that he did nothing "wrong", which judge also was told the "verdict is wrong" by Nicholas Slatten sentenced to life in prison for murder for "having started the melee with a precision shot through the head of a young man stopped at the intersection" before also telling the judge "[y]ou know I am innocent, sir". U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth according to The New York Times "strongly disagreed'. He rejected all requests from all parties telling the court that "[b]ased upon the seriousness of the crimes, I find the penalty is not excessive".
     Former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney once head of the giant Halliburton all-purpose government contractor oft-rewarded with enormously profitable no-bid U.S. Government contracts supposedly cut his ties with that company while "serving" (himself) in the office of Vice-President although his rapidly escalating reported income while "serving" (himself) as Vice-President would seem to belie that claim. Halliburton has since payed out $1.1 billion to settle claims against it for its responsibility in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and delayed response leading to a subsequent environmentally disastrous huge oil spill filling the Gulf of Mexico (aka the "Gulf of Corexit") which British Petroleum (BP) now is using to advertise its self-described alleged status as a model corporate citizen while environmentalists and HBO's VICE program have maintained that claim to be as far from the truth as it could be as the Gulf is still filled with an oil and highly toxic Corexit "dispersant" mixture far more toxic than the oil itself actually now merely hidden beneath the surface by BP as reported here in an earlier post. BP's payout to claimants injured by BP's massive oil spill disaster now has topped $5 billion and is expected to reach nearly $10 billion in total payouts.
     During that time of alleged "service" to the United States Cheney also seemingly maintained a very cozy relationship with his Blackwater "Blackdeath" contractor outfit as it was rewarded amply with contracts including in war zones newly created by the Bush-Cheney administration as exemplified above as well as in worldwide positions serving in such dubious roles as "replacing" or "supplementing" Marine guards stationed at worldwide U.S. embassies for example in Pakistan where a local Blackwater office was raided and found by Pakistani police to contain an arsenal of illegal criminally-oriented weapons such as blackjacks, sawed-off shotguns and many others reportedly used in part violently to control long lines of Pakistani visitors waiting outside the United States embassy there. Meanwhile stateside in Texas Dick "Pigheart" Cheney in 2006 with a shotgun shot to the heart area Texas attorney Harry Wittington nearly killing him.
     Cheney also as mentioned above in addition to having maintained his close ties to Halliburton and the many times renamed (after each outrage) Blackwater "Blackdeath" outfit has been found to have played a central role in the Bush Administration's torture program carried out by the CIA committing war crimes against humanity all of which to date has not been known to have resulted in any criminal action against Cheney (who recently was interviewed by Playboy magazine) at home or abroad. Interested readers can find significantly more detailed information in the BBC World News and New York Times articles linked to below as well as several previous posts in the Ninth Amendment concerning the above Baghdad slaughterous rampage, other Blackwater transgressions, Halliburton, Cheney and the CIA's kidnapping and torture program of war crimes against humanity largely committed under the legal nod of CIA Acting General Counsel John "Goodfella" Rizzo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/ex-blackwater-guards-sentenced-to-prison-in-2007-killings-of-iraqi-civilians.html?ref=us&_r=0

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32292921

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