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ACLU (blog)
April 28, 2018
One former CIA official told The Daily Beast that Haspel “ran the interrogation program.” Haspel was also present for the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at a CIA black site in Thailand. According to the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report, al-Nashiri was “subjected to the waterboard at least threeÃâà...
Democracy Now!
April 28, 2018
The documents provide additional evidence as to how Haspel personally supervised the torture, including waterboarding, of CIA prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in 2002 at a CIA black site in Thailand, and drafted cables ordering the destruction of videotape evidence of another prisoner's waterboarding.
The Boston Globe
April 26, 2018
217 years ago this month, standing on the deck of his ship amid the Battle of Copenhagen, Horatio Nelson looked toward his commander's vessel, which was signaling him to break off his assault. Nelson held a spyglass up to his right eye, which he'd lost years earlier in battle. “I really do not see the signal,”Ãâà...
Arkansas Online
April 25, 2018
In 2002, Haspel oversaw a CIA prison in Thailand, where The New York Times reported that an al-Qaida suspect, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was waterboarded three times. In the memo, Morell, who was following up on an investigation by a special prosecutor, found fault with Haspel's former boss at the time,Ãâà...
New York Magazine
April 24, 2018
“While the public record concerning Ms. Haspel is incomplete, there are multiple uncontested reports that she ran a CIA 'black site' prison, at which at least one detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was repeatedly tortured, including by waterboarding,” the former military officers write. “In addition to her role inÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 24, 2018
The letter cited reports that Haspel ran a CIA "black site" in Thailand at which at least one detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was repeatedly tortured by waterboarding and she oversaw the process. READ MORE: 'Acted Appropriately': CIA Memo Says Haspel Was Right to Destroy Torture Tapes. The letterÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2018
Haspel reportedly arrived in Thailand after Abu Zubaydah's interrogations and ran the site during the questioning of another Al Qaeda suspect, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, a Saudi national thought to be involved in the 2000 bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole. Nashiri was imprisoned in Thailand for about aÃâà...
Just Security
April 17, 2018
When Haspel was promoted to deputy director of the CIA last year, multiple press accounts stated that she had been the CIA's chief of base at the secret prison (or “black site”) in Thailand where Abu Zubaydah and Abd al Rahim al Nashiri were tortured. These reports were apparently incorrect as to AbuÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 29, 2018
A courtroom sketch of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri. (Janet Hamlin / Tribune News Service). Haspel reportedly arrived at the site after the brutal interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, an Al Qaeda suspect currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. But Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who officials said was involved in the 2000Ãâà...
Berkeley Daily Planet
March 23, 2018
She oversaw the brutal torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. It was Haspel who ordered the destruction of video tapes showing the Abu Zubaydah torture sessions, on orders from Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's notorious former Counterterrorism Center director. CIA director Mike Pompeo — nominated to beÃâà...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
March 17, 2018
But they indicate she arrived before another detainee, Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, was waterboarded at least three times in November 2002. Details about the two detainees' treatment were disclosed in a 2014 Senate report. It said the prison was shut down in December 2002. Even if Haspel was at the prisonÃâà...
NWAOnline
March 8, 2018
The microphones were found in August 2017 during an inspection of the room by defense lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. That set off a chain of events that eventually led senior members of al-Nashiri's defense team to withdraw from the case, prompting the military judge last month to suspend legalÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 7, 2018
MIAMI — Microphones were found in a room where a Saudi prisoner met with his lawyers at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, U.S. officials said in recently filed court documents that shed light on an incident that has halted legal proceedings in a high-profile terrorism case. The microphones wereÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
December 31, 1999
On that day, she carried out the destruction of videotapes CIA had made during interrogations of Al-Qaeda suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in 2002 at a CIA black site prison in Thailand. Press reporting states some 90 tapes were made of Zubaydah and two of al-Nashiri, and that 12 ofÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The deaths came as the CIA was debating what to do with videotapes of the torture of Abu Zubaydah, which included 83 sessions of waterboarding, and as a second CIA captive, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was being subjected to similar treatment at the CIA's black site in Thailand. Mitchell and Jessen ledÃâà...
Quad-Cities Online
December 31, 1999
This obscene chapter in our history took place during the George W. Bush administration. For a time, Haspel was in charge of one of the CIA's secret overseas prisons — a “black site” located in Thailand. She is credibly reported to have been the boss there when a detainee named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,Ãâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
Another detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, an al-Qaeda suspect accused of involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole, was waterboarded three times. Lawmakers in the Senate Intelligence Committee raised concerns over Haspel's nomination for the post of CIA director over her role in the destruction ofÃâà...
