The Wall Street Journal: Abolish the FBI

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Thu May 18 00:30:54 PDT 2023


American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantanamo

Both the US CIA and FBI and more need permanently canceled,
shutdown, disbanded, with rehire prohibited.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4443310
SSRN-id4443310.pdf

American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantanamo

131 Pages Posted:

Mark Denbeaux
Seton Hall Law School; Seton Hall Law School

Dr. Jess Ghannam
affiliation not provided to SSRN

Abu Zubaydah
affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: May 9, 2023

Abstract

Despite the efforts of the federal government, particularly the
Central Intelligence Agency, to conceal evidence of the actual
operation of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” (“EITs”) it
deployed on detainees in dark sites and at Guantanamo, a steady
drumbeat of disclosures has provided an unparalleled view into this
disgraceful episode in the nation’s history. One of the most dramatic
revelations has been the drawings by Detainee Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad
Husayn aka Abu Zubaydah (hereinafter “Mr. Abu Zubaydah”), the first
victim of such EITs. These drawings viscerally convey the brutal
reality the CIA sought to hide with its calculated destruction of
video recordings of torture conducted by its agents. These drawings
also depict the kinds of torture -- in which the FBI was also
complicit -- inflicted on the artist and his fellow detainees. These
tortures are, if possible, all the more disturbing as to Mr. Abu
Zubaydah himself because even the torturers—CIA and FBI – now
recognize that his was a case of mistaken identity. Nevertheless, he
remains in detention – albeit uncharged – until this day. His drawings
dovetail with the recent accounts of Dr. James Mitchell, a chief
architect of the torture regime, who both wrote a book on EITs and
testified in hearings on Guantanamo. These sources, together with the
report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, provide the
most complete – and compelling – account to date of America’s torture
program.

This Report is an amalgam of the work of many individuals but special
credit must be accorded Mr. Abu Zubaydah’s artistic renderings of the
mistreatment he and other detainees received. All 40 of Mr. Abu
Zubaydah’s drawings and descriptions of torture can be found in the
Appendix. Questions regarding the Report may be addressed to Professor
Emeritus Mark P. Denbeaux at Mark.Denbeaux at shu.edu.

Keywords: Abu Zubaydah, FBI, CIA, GTMO, Guantanamo, torture, national
security, detainees, water boarding, waterboarding, enhanced
interrogation techniques, EIT, walling, black sites, terrorism, CIA,
SSCI Report, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Suggested Citation:
Denbeaux, Mark and Ghannam, Jess and Zubaydah, Abu, American
Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantanamo (May 9,
2023).


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