CIA Director Admits Use of Waterboarding
CIA director Michael Hayden admitted to use of waterboarding, a torture technique used to simulate drowning, to 3 detainees. It is an important event in the fact that it is the first time CIA has released names and figures to who was subject to the torture technique. Hayden said that the 3 detainees were "September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and senior al Qaeda leaders Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri". CIA director says that they haven't used the technique since 2002 and that their intelligence suspected that during the time they thought they were an "eminent threat to American security". To me this is unacceptable, I don't understand how this kind of information is kept from the public, and i don't like how the government is keeping more secrets from the public. I think that the wall between the amerian people, and the american people that work for the better of others, is getting larger....
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0517815120080206
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