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This blog is for a first year seminar class called Talking about Freedom at High Point University. The premise of this course is freedom in the United States of America aswell as race relations. As a class we will be exploring civil rights, constitutional reality, freedoms and protetions. We will be focusing on a plethora of historical landmark cases. With that being said we will also be discussing the way The Constitution of the United States shapes peoples lives. My weekly posts will circle around the media and news in the US regarding race relations and freedom.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

December 9, 2014

C.I.A. lies about interrogation programs

The Central Intelligence Agency positioned a public relations proposal “that would stress information gathered form its disputed interrogation program had played a critical role in the hunt” for Osama bin Laden. Meaning the insights that the C.I.A. collected during their hunt for bin Laden were essential to the process. This past Tuesday the Senate Intelligence Committee announced that the C.I.A. would not have been able to locate and capture bin Laden if they did not use torture. 
One man named Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti was a main focus due to his close ties with Bin Laden. After an interrogation with Hassan Ghul, a Qaeda operative, the C.I.A. proposed that Ghul provided “the most accurate” information regarding Kuwaiti’s relationship with Bin Laden. However, Ghul was then subjected to “more enhanced interrogation.” He was hung in a room for over fifty hours and experienced sleep depravation, hallucinations, and paralysis from legs down. 


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/senate-report-raises-doubts-about-cia-claims-on-hunt-for-osama-bin-laden.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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