{"id":16389,"date":"2022-03-16T05:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T04:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2022-03-16T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T04:59:36","slug":"extra-legally-beyond-the-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=16389","title":{"rendered":"Extra-legally, beyond the guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/mar\/14\/cia-black-site-detainee-training-prop-torture-techniques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">A detainee at a secret\u00a0CIA\u00a0detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leaving him with brain damage, according to a US government report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">The details of the torture of Ammar al-Baluchi are in a 2008 report by the CIA\u2019s inspector general, newly declassified as part of a court filing by his lawyers aimed at getting him an independent medical examination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">According to the inspector general\u2019s report, the CIA was aware that the 2003 rendition of the detainee, Ammar al-Baluchi, from Pakistani custody to the \u201cblack site\u201d north of Kabul was conducted \u201cextra-legally,\u201d because at the time he was in Pakistani jurisdiction and no longer represented a terrorist threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">The report said that interrogators at the site, known both as Cobalt and the Salt Pit, went beyond the CIA\u2019s guidelines in torturing Baluchi, using two techniques without approval: using a stick behind his knees in stress position that involved leaning back while kneeling, and dousing with ice-cold water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: A detainee at a secret\u00a0CIA\u00a0detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leaving him with brain damage, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=16389\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}