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there, down the road, it would be particularly in the iraq war and in the setting up of get low and all of that. and, and by the time you get to 2001, it's already this cultural artifact. and so it is going to be picked up by by anyone for any purpose. mm mm. mm mm. kind of people held before carnival are not there because they stole the car. they are not common criminals in their enemy, combatants and terrors, who were be detained for acts of war against our country. and that is why different rules have to apply on to the continuity is
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extraordinary. if you look like a sketch of the cubicle and of the student volunteer and mcgill university, and then if you look forward to 2002, when the 1st al qaeda suspects are being confined at camp x, right? at guantanamo bay there and goggles gloves in here. most that look good god, just like that 1957 sketch in after 911. all of us working at p h r. i realized that there would very likely be a huge problem of interrogation. gone wild, meaning torture, cruel in human and degrading t treatment. the
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use of extreme isolation was one of a range of techniques that were employed by officials interrogators and so forth, literally starting all the way back in 2002 for many, many days. and that is just unbelievably destructive. and i was the 1st of all, you are to go down there in the commission process in a 4 to 6 months period. you see a market deterioration in many respects. we if you're a year or 2, it's solitary confinement. you're going to ask the defendant for the 1st time in 2 years to, to, to interact with other human beings. beyond his lawyer and his jailers. it's going to be the jury that's going to decide his life. he's going to be put on the stand. and that's where he's going to speak for the 1st time to the world for 2 years. if
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to be shut off from the world, it's impossible who who has been 9 years, an active duty. and then i'm still in the reserves in 2011. the department of defense assigned me to a system, a team representing allergic mohammed, the the lee defendant in the 911 case. what i can say is that the u. s. government has acknowledged that for the period between 2003 in 2006, mister mohammed was held at, has certain undisclosed foreign locations, black size, otherwise known as flexes. it was what
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a boarded over $183.00 times as correct. i can say that there is a memos between the department of justice. i various organs of the us government to include the department of defense, the central intelligence agency, as to what types of enhanced interrogation techniques would be authorized for certain types of detainees who when they began confining pantano, they moved to having psychologists do interviews with patients, discover individual flaws, individual sources of trauma in security. and then they, they also discovered because they were demanding with arabs and muslims. ah, the muslim males are uniquely upset by nudity, and also by female fiscal contact. and fear of dogs
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race has always played a role in american torture. it's the american torture techniques are part of old military punishments, punishments that were used on slaves and, and in you might find that strange, but there was one area where slaves were never whipped, but you use clean techniques on them. they didn't leave marks. and that was, if you're going to sell a slave, because a slave that had wit marks, means that they were not going to obey. and so a clean slave was pass up, got a higher price in the cotton industry. in the southern delta states of the united states depended completely on torture. over the course of 4 decades human beings by using their bodies as
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a technological form. as a technological machine were able to multiply by 8 times the amount of cotton, an individual person could pick in a single day. so the use of torture is absolutely tied at the root from the very beginning, ah, in these kinds of cases many people in the system for the people who are imposing these conditions, believe that ordinary punishment is too good for these people. and a lot of it is about the other dis of them religiously, ethnically, nationally, culturally,
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it's easier that it would be to someone from your own community to do that. so in guantanamo being. secretary defense rumsfeld appointed a commander jeffrey miller, whose job was to extract information. and jeffrey miller made up a c. d or staff did. and i included a rack and are under the oh, with the permission of the commander their general sanchez even can rent training sessions for the interrogators and the staff at abu ghraib prison. or he transmitted the guantanamo techniques to the abil gradstaff. basically the restraints what removed and they were told to get results.
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the thing that became so clear is that what united states was doing was not a secret. it was hidden in plain sight. it wasn't really until the photographs from abu ghraib were released, which were just, you know, the tip of the iceberg of what was actually happening. that people in this country began actually talking about it what we did in a lab was exactly what to do. and i had to work on that all over. yeah, i would recommend exactly the right. same course of actions that we did exactly right.
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very soon them all. not all of them i can differently whether one is 1600 of them. we've only seen up in about 20 maybe 30 is 1600 and they, they, the worst ones are, are the ones we mc. ah. so and yes, they were violating a lot. i regulations in what they were doing,
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but the that they were operating within a system in which they were condition they were structured in order to violate those laws when you arrived at the wave where you aware of what had happened there. oh, almost immediately after we arrived i would grab, we were briefed that there was misconduct, but we weren't given details. and the interrogators that i knew who had been there during that time didn't. they didn't talk about it. so we, we didn't know, i learned everything through the news. we understood the geneva conventions to mean that absolutely. you know, you, you, you couldn't, you, you couldn't harm anybody in your care that your primary responsibility was their well being rather than putting them in distress. but then we were confused,
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and then of course we got these memos from the justice department and from the pentagon, authorizing the use of much more harsh techniques. we started adopting those techniques when i was stationed in mosul. among them were stress position, sleep deprivation ah, inducing hypothermia to stay in any way we can put them in distress using dogs. this is, this is a foot cell called slippery slope so that they take the gloves off policy allowed american interrogators from going from a certain list of techniques that were let's say aloud. and even those were already torture to doing extreme things, rape and sodomy in them. you know, at the most extreme forms of physical and psychological brutality.
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sheesh, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race move is on, often has very dramatic development. only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk when i was showing wrong, when all groups just don't hold any world, yes,
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to shape out disdain becomes the advocate an engagement. it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground l look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such orders at conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously is to great trust, rather than fear i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with
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a ah you can just torture somebody on a whim without knowing how to do it and the reality of course, is that torture like any physical skill right? requires training, requires practice. it requires an institutional setting,
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a built environment really, you need to have this institution, my space, physical space in which you can perform torture. we want, you know, we, we want to be successful. i was against the war. i'm a liberal, i didn't vote for george bush, but i wanted to do my job. well, you know, i felt like, you know, if i can be successful and get intelligence from these people, and we can in the or quickly, and that would be better for, for iraq, better for, for osman. the people who are hulu in recent days has been a focus, a few who have betrayed our values in solving the reputation of our country. and we have 6 or 7 investigations underway and a military justice system that has values. we know that those in law
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whoever they are will be brought to justice. i was angry at our leadership because i knew that they were prosecuting interrogators and guards and leadership wasn't being held accountable. i i, i was disappointed in myself and our behavior were there was terrible. so i was very angry when they have a great trial happened. i i, i got a call from the lawyer for chip frederick, and he asked me to act as part of the defense team. i said, well, the person that you should really talk to his is, embargo. he ran this, experimenting the 19 seventies and the situations at abu ghraib as far as i can tell, are those conditions that are also reproduced in them. barto experiments,
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chip, frederick, he's the man here. oh, he was the one who had the idea of putting electrodes on on the hood. his lawyer said, the problem now is the military want to use him in a shell trial in baghdad. in abu ghraib, not only not a single senior officer went to trial. not a single seni office. they got a recall letter of reprimand. in fact, in some cases they even got promoted. that the, the offices. so it's, it's the people at the top always take care of the people at the top. mm. for those individuals who were directed by the us government to, to engage in any technique that i believe would price level torture, crore and human or degrading treatment. i think they lose a little bit of themselves every time they have to come in and human act. and my
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power is out to them as well. i frankly in i don't think i noticed that until i got back and then you know, like, tremendous guilt. and i think a lot of us to look signs that were later diagnosed as p p. s. d, but i don't know. i think that they have another name for now and i think it was, it's called like moral moral failure. so to assistance is feeling that people come back with after being in war. if they feel like they think they've done things better outside of their moral compass, ah,
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we're still evaluating how we're gonna approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so forth. and i don't believe that anybody has above. along. on the other hand, i also have a belief that we need to look forward as lowe's, as possible looking backwards ah, will look forward backward. well, forward is going to be like backward. if you don't do something about what happened to the past, nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past. and for this, among other people, i fault. president obama, essentially he gave everybody, dick cheney donald rumsfeld. he gave them all a free pass george w bush. they're all going to be rehabilitated. they're all going to be treated as great statesman. one day, i mean, they gave president obama
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a nobel prize for not being george w bush. the question, of course, the world tap, dancing around with, you know, or avoiding as does it work as torture work doesn't work. people that have information that are part of an underground apparatus, a terrorist organization, revolutionary organization accomplished organization, whatever organized form of collective alan chip. i b, they won't break now. and the people that you pick up that are innocence. yes. you will tell them to pieces, you'll destroy them, you'll ruin them. i think that a few of the people that passed passed through my hands as an interrogator did have intelligence. but most the vast majority of the people that i dealt with work just being picked up because they were males of military age and they were just get
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swept up. and these raves, i don't think torture is always being used as a method to gain information or, or confessions. it's often just been used are out of it out of anger and fear. for right after september 11th attacks, september 11th, 2001. a very well known harvard law professor islander shall, which came up with the ticking bomb theory. and he said, so what happens for example, if a terse, as a ticking time bomb a small nuclear bomb in times square and upon sticking. and we only have so much
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time, we must torture. and then you know, the show 24 of course started every segment with that giant clock ticking away. and it kind of gave visual reality visual imprint that resonated with this discussion of ticking time bomb. in addition to the way that it framed our reception of torture on a popular level, just among the civilians in guantanamo itself, they were getting pressure from the department of defense and they have these meetings. and in the meetings they screened the 2nd season of $24.00 and use that as a jumping off place to decide what tortures what methods they were going to propose to donald rumsfeld that they would use against the people they were holding in. guantanamo, i think was very influential on the people that i worked with. so i
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know that some of the techniques that people wanted to use they had, should they had seen on television programs. for instance, i mentioned to you are leaders wanted us to mark and mark executions and also using electricity. and these were things that they had seen on television this . i mean, no, no one trained us on that. that wasn't, that was simply from colored here in the united states. we have this picture of torture as something that is done by the lonely person, the lonely hero, the man who does it more in sorrow than in anger because he is absolutely forced to because so many lives depend on it, is willing to take the moral stain and the moral pain on him. and in order to save all these people, there was always this anxiety in american politics. which is that democracy kind of makes, makes weaker and less capable of taking the real things that real men should be
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able to do. there is a very gendered, masculine este sort of notion behind this real men, torture and and, and democracy makes of sissy's too. in the middle east, we have people shopping the heads off christians. we have things that we have never seen before. i would bring back water boarding and i'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than water boarding. we're hey, if you're in your terrors b would be a free trial. detention in m. c. c. turn south for 2 years. they're going anywhere . would you say that the manhattan m c. c? is while he done in plain sight, a black sight, an american fine?
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yes. i would say it's a black side that the sense of the black sites that people are be taken out and tortured, but they're being tortured in the way that our daily lives are being managed or not managed. they're not living a day without a life. they are a, a neglected product in a warehouse where there's no maintenance, you know, i mean, even as like the most, the most sole engaging place i've ever been. one of the things that we need to consider now and has become quite an issue is how many of these soldiers who used to participate in these kinds of american techniques are now policeman and immigration officers who managed mexicans and hispanics and other sorts of things in integrations. today, there's already beginning to be evidence that these old techniques, including freezing rooms, sleep deprivation,
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all these things are now being used on, on, on immigrants and children. so this is one of the terrible things about techniques is that they circulate between war and home and whatever you do and war comes home move. ready ready ah, if we keep torture clean, then we can feel that the thing that's being done to protect us isn't really so bad . we have become used to the idea that it is a legitimate moral stance that we do anything we need to in order to feel safe to feel secure. i mean a bizarre way. it's as if the government is trying to make a deal with us. you let us do whatever we want over here on the dark side, and in return i promise you will never die. it's like this fake promise of
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immortality. but of course, what time on the history of the american empire, a certain 50 years from now, historians might have to say, as french historians have said about french algeria, that something was lost in the russian brace of torture. the moral authority that made america war later sacrificed for this the shamira of effective interrogation. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
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ah, ah, is you'll media a reflection of reality? ah, in a world transformed what will make you feel safe? isolation, community. are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah and government and say we should impose
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punitive measures in such a way that only the other side is hurt and all of them our people to do so. so to speak. do not have to make any sacrifices. only the other side has the major sector, fries, and we have to push the other side into her chart, them that action through a kind of collective punishment, because that is what the sanctions on this large scale. and in that, thanks if you more against human rights. mm hm. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk
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with russia has called a un security council meeting following what moscow calls a provocation by ukranian radicals in the town of butcher near here, that's after ukraine released images of bodies in the streets, blaming russian forces for the killing the russian investigative committee has opened a criminal investigation into calls by the mayor of the ukrainian city of denise for the killing of russians. quote, all over the world and in the largest possible quantities. fighting continues in the danielle republic, city of mario apple, as russian forces move to capture the cities metallurgical plant, allegedly the last stronghold of the as of battalion in the area of correspondent, it covers the story from the ground.

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