Acts of Courage Against Torture
American Civil Liberties Union
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We will never know the names of so many of the CIA officers who spoke out against torture. They were among the brave men and women throughout the government who challenged the brutality approved at the highest levels of government, and they are responsible for bringing to light what so many wanted to keep in the shadows…
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During his eight years as an FBI agent and interrogator, Ali Soufan was deeply involved in dozens of interrogations in high profile terrorism investigations around the world. In 2002, his expertise interrogating members of al Qaeda led him to a CIA black-site in Thailand. There, Soufan and an FBI colleague conducted the first interrogations of Abu Zubaydah. These interrogations elicited “important actionable intelligence” concerning Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Jose Padilla that the CIA would later claim it obtained by using its so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” including waterboarding. When the CIA’s interrogators began subjecting Abu Zubaydah to increasingly cruel and untested treatment such as forced nudity and sleep deprivation, Soufan was horrified. He reported the torture to his superiors in the FBI and was pulled out of the interrogations. Testifying before Congress in 2009, Soufan argued that the CIA’s methods were “harmful, shameful, slower, unreliable, ineffective, and play directly into the enemy’s handbook…”
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To sign the anti-torture petition:
https://www.aclu.org/honor
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To watch the full interview and read the full article please click on the link below:
https://www.aclu.org/national-security/acts-courage-against-torture