Those CIA Waterboarding Documents In Full
The American Civil Liberties Union has seen CIA documents that mention waterboarding.
After CIA Director Michael Hayden publicly admitted that the CIA has, in fact, waterboarded detainees, the agency could no longer cling to its last excuses for covering up the use of the very word “waterboarding” in CIA records. As a result, yesterday we obtained several heavily redacted documents in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the ACLU and other organizations seeking documents related to the treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.
While the documents do, in fact, reveal the word “waterboarding” or some variation, they leave pretty much everything else to the imagination.
Such is the freedom of information…
Posted: 31st, May 2008 | In: Photojournalism Comments (3) | TrackBack | Permalink
