BTW Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s two sons (7 and 9 years old) were captured in Pakistan in September 2002, less than a month after the “caterpillar or other insect” memo was issued.

Acciording to a statement by the father of internee Majid “The Pakistani guards told my son that the boys were kept in a separate area upstairs, and were denied food and water by other guards. They were also mentally tortured by having ants or other creatures put on their legs to scare them and get them to say where their father was hiding.”

Note the use of insects! Another suspect was tortured in restraint and pain positions for eight hours or more, then placed in a box that was “too small to sit or stand in and infested with mosquitos”. It’s unlikely that the room where interrogators were working would be filled with mosquitos. But the box was. Clearly, this is again another case of the application of insects to torment the internees.

Another report says that the boys were brought to the United States in March 2003 for further interrogation after their father was captured. The CIA reported that child psychologists were involved in these interrogations, which were intended to get their father to “talk”.

Exactly how it can be justified that such interrogations were in the “best interests” of the children is beyond me. How can child psychologists justify such activity? They should have been advocates for the release of the children to relatives. Instead they were participating in State-Sponsored kidnapping….that was occurring within the borders of the United States.

One can be assured that there were videotapes of these interrogations….perhaps shown to KSM…who knew his kids were held (although he thought they had only been held 3 months) and tortured.

…the report’s release “can’t be more than a few weeks away,” and that he has “every reason to believe it will be a devastating opinion.”

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi…..hp?ref=fp1

In any event, Bradbury lists a whole lot of things referencing those docs and most of them sound ridiculous or have been pretty clearly sourced elsewhere. It sounds to me that Bradbury tries at one point to make KSM the source for routing the Singapore follow up bombings, but that has been pretty well and thoroughly sourced elsewhere. And apparently in the end KSM tied himself to pretty much everything we could have ever listed – a completely unsuspicious circumstance.

Remember Cheney and Libby’s spiels with Judy Miller. After they cherrypicked info for surreptitious release to her without attribution (in violation, imo, of the nat sec act’s prohibition on executive planted, unattributed domestic propaganda) Libby also gave her a spiel about that being a taste, if she could only see the real stuff it would be so much worse (of course, they had cherrypicked the “best of the worst” and what was actually left was stuff contradicting what they planted with her). So that’s an old time game he plays.

He also knows that what CIA can do is lie and produce fake docs – just like they can destroy original videos. So the hint is there, not so much because he cares about the CIA operative he made into torturers, but bc he has CIA in a position where, to cover for their own, they have to protect him too and he’s getting a kick out of that.

Yeah – they kept going back and they got more and more each time, but they never really got what they needed, even so, and they know it. But it’s ok – Obama is happy to give them what no one else would.

Iranian leaders have repeatedly asked for the release of three Iranian diplomats, who are accused of spying but have been held without trial by U.S. forces in Iraq since 2007. The Iranian foreign ministry recently called for the “speedy and unconditional freedom of its consulate officials.”