Monday, March 28, 2005

Navy SEAL court-martialed secretly but evidence implicates CIA in torture

Swirling around the case are reports that point to the involvement of the CIA's interrogation tactics in the death of the detainee - one of a handful of cases that the spy agency has referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.
The SEALs acted as the CIA's warrant squad on dangerous "capture or kill" missions in Iraq, bursting into homes in the middle of the night and carting off suspects. A secret policy governed these missions under the SEAL credo of "speed, surprise and violence of action."
During a pretrial hearing in January, a SEAL officer testified that the SEALs were taught that it was OK to use force to get a detainee's attention and were authorized to use deadly force. Prosecutors, however, insist they must be held accountable for a mission that got out of hand. [from UnknownNews.net]

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