More Than A Quarter Of The World’s Countries Helped The CIA Run Its Torture Program

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Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim , Lauren Weber, The Huffington Post , December 9, 2014

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WASHINGTON — For several months before the Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary of its controversial report on the CIA’s torture program on Tuesday, Senate Democrats were locked in a well-publicized battle with the executive branch over whether to redact the aliases used for CIA officials used in the document.

But even as the White House and the CIA engaged in this dispute with the Senate, a separate, and potentially more serious, set of revelations was at stake.

According to several U.S. officials involved with the negotiations, the intelligence community has long been concerned that the Senate document would enable readers to identify the many countries that aided the CIA’s controversial torture program between 2002 and roughly 2006. These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture.

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sudhan Says:
December 15, 2014 at 11:31 am | Reply
US imperialism has its client states as well as many friendly countries whose rulers will commit any crime at the bidding of Washington to please the hegemon. That explains their help to the CIA to run secret torture sites and prisons in so many countries. Pakistan has been run for long by US puppets. We know how they arrested their own citizens and handed them over to the CIA torturers for the sake of millions of dollars. For Pakistani establishment it was a good opportunity to make money! That’s the true face of Pakistani ruling establishment.

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