Gina Haspel: Torture Queen
Haspel ran a "
black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002.
[11][18] The site was codenamed "Cat's Eye" and held suspected
al Qaeda terrorist members
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and
Abu Zubaydah for a time. The
Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were
waterboarded and interrogated using no-longer-authorized methods.
[7][8] Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a "large box", had his head slammed against a wall, and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence (
Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah).
[19] Haspel was “directly involved in its controversial interrogation program” and had an “extensive role” in torturing detainees. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture detailed the central role she played in the particularly gruesome torture of detainee Abu Zubaydah.
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Haspel played a vital role in the destruction of interrogation videotapes that showed the torture of detainees both at the black site she ran and other secret agency locations.
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On December 17, 2014, the
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) pressed
criminal charges against unidentified CIA operatives, after the US Senate Select Committee published its
report on torture by US intelligence agencies.
On June 7, 2017, the ECCHR called on the
Public Prosecutor General of Germany to issue an arrest warrant against Haspel over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects. The complaint against her is centered on the case of Saudi national
Abu Zubaydah.
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Gina Haspel - Wikipedia
She has much to answer for!