Trump’s CIA director Gina Haspel watched as a detainee was tortured at US black site in Thailand in 2002

Written by on June 12, 2022

Recent testimony at a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, revealed that Gina Haspel, the director of the CIA during the Trump administration who retired in 2021, observed the torture of detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at a US black site in Thailand in 2002.

According to a report in the New York Times on Friday, James E. Mitchell, a psychologist who developed the “enhanced interrogation” techniques implemented by the CIA during the Bush administration, testified that Haspel watched while he and another interrogator tortured Nashiri on multiple occasions.

Mitchell said the “coercive . . .



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