God of Suffocation and Extreme Human Torture Gina Haspel

SADISTIC  MONSTER?

Is Trump’s prospective new CIA Chief a “sadistic monster”, 
as many Washington insiders believe her to be? 

Gina Haspel — Trump’s New Torture Chief?

She looks like a favorite aunt. But is ‘Bloody Gina’, the woman who could be the next CIA boss, up to her eyeballs in TORTURE?

Hitler would have been ashamed of her.

Her name has been excised from file after file, but insiders insist there is no mistaking the identity of the CIA chief whom they dubbed ‘Bloody Gina’.

As ‘chief of base’ of a secret ‘black site’ CIA prison in Thailand, she oversaw a brutal regime in which suspected terrorists were subjected to ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques, including being waterboarded, hurled against walls and squeezed for hours into coffin-like boxes.

It is claimed she even went to a prisoner’s cell to goad him after he had been tortured, and there is speculation that she once joined in an interrogation.

But while she had the power to stop the interrogation of suspects as they vomited, urinated on themselves in their shackles, or lost consciousness, official records show that she never did.

Those records also show that she was instrumental in the destruction of video tapes that documented the use of techniques now almost universally regarded as torture.

The CIA agent in question is Gina Haspel and, to widespread horror, she may soon be the West’s most powerful spy.

While President Donald Trump has been keen to highlight his wish to appoint the first female boss of the CIA, a growing outcry in Washington has greeted his announcement that, having promoted CIA director Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State, he wants Haspel — Pompeo’s deputy — to take his place.

Republican Senator John McCain, who was himself tortured while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has described the enhanced interrogations carried out under the George W. Bush administration as ‘one of the darkest chapters in American history’. He was one of the first to demand that Haspel be made to explain the nature and extent of her involvement in it when she faces approval hearings in the Senate.

That dark chapter mentioned by McCain began with the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, after which the CIA came under intense pressure to find out more about Al Qaeda and any other planned attacks on the U.S.

In 2002, the agency thought they had captured the third-highest ranking Al Qaeda official, a Saudi named Abu Zubaydah, who was a personal aide to Osama Bin Laden.

It was specifically to break down this ‘high-value’ captive that the CIA employed its controversial enhanced interrogation techniques.

He was taken to the first of America’s black sites, an off-the-books CIA prison in Thailand whose existence was never officially acknowledged. Codenamed Cat’s Eye, it became a laboratory for U.S. techniques that the Obama administration later admitted were torture by another name.

Under Bush, however, Haspel was reassured that these interrogation methods were not only legal, but essential in the battle against Islamic extremism.

Haspel, a senior member of the CIA’s counter-terrorism centre, was rapidly appointed Cat’s Eye’s chief of base (or COB) and personally supervised the interrogation of Zubaydah and another important prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a fellow Saudi accused of numerous acts of terrorism, including helping to plot the bombing of the USS Cole in Aden in 2000.

Government memos reveal Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002 alone, far exceeding the number the U.S. Justice Department had approved. Astonishingly, the process — which simulates drowning — continued even after he started to co-operate.

ABU  ZUBAYDAH

He had no information to give but was tortured all the same

With the CIA’s video cameras switched on to record any evidence he gave, guards shackled Zubaydah to a gurney and interrogators poured water over his mouth and nose until he began to suffocate.

He told his lawyers: ‘They kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until I really felt I was drowning and my chest was about to explode from lack of oxygen.’

He also said his interrogators repeatedly slammed him against walls, a technique called walling, and kept him confined in a coffin-like box for hours, meaning he was agonisingly unable to move. A 2014 Senate report confirmed he wasn’t exaggerating his torment, noting that he was once waterboarded until he ‘became completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth’.

Medical staff had to revive him. The report added: ‘Interrogation techniques such as slaps and wallings were used in combination, frequently concurrent with sleep deprivation and nudity.’

The then 31-year-old Zubaydah pleaded for mercy, saying — correctly, as it transpired — that he knew nothing about the terror group’s plans.

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