CIA director Gina Haspel's Thailand torture ties

 

When Gina Haspel was nominated as the next head of the CIA in March, it re-opened debate on a murky period of recent US history - the use of secretive overseas prisons to torture terror suspects. As the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports, the spotlight has fallen on Thailand, and one such "black site" which Haspel once ran.

 

In early April 2002, a plane took off from an undisclosed air base in Pakistan, en route to Thailand. On board was a special passenger.

 

Abu Zubaydah, a 31-year-old Saudi-born Palestinian, believed to be one of Osama Bin Laden's top lieutenants, had been captured a few days earlier in a joint US-Pakistani raid on Al Qaeda safe houses in Faisalabad.

 

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43496212

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2018-05-04

Sounds like the girl for the job. At any cost get the job done?

2 hours ago, Chris Lawrence said:

Sounds like the girl for the job. At any cost get the job done?

They always go way too far siting security reasons for abusing or breaking the law.  Sound familiar ?

Send the news to Mr. Watchtower.

5 hours ago, yellowboat said:

They always go way too far siting security reasons for abusing or breaking the law.  Sound familiar ?

Imagine the balls you would need to do such a job. Bigger than Saddam or Gadhafi? I bet she tapes them under? Not to even think that you would have a conscious. Double dose of Viagra for the German Shepard's to get the information? Got to come up with new ideas all the time!

5 hours ago, yellowboat said:

They always go way too far siting security reasons for abusing or breaking the law.  Sound familiar ?

Which just about every country in thr world does since 9/11.

Why do you think snowden did what he did.