The American military has acknowledged receiving one detainee from him, and the Pentagon has acknowledged receiving phone calls from him.
Other times, the detainees at COBALT were subjected to what was described as a 'rough takedown,' in which approximately five CIA officers would scream at a detainee, drag him outside of his cell, cut his clothes off, and secure him with Mylar tape.
One detainee showed him the pellets in his back from a shotgun blast; he said he had been shot at close range, through the bars of his cell.
It would try and find a secure hospital place for a detainee like him and try and locate relatives.
Formerly, the military at that point had to release a detainee; transfer him to a long-term prison in Iraq or Afghanistan, to which the Red Cross has broad access; or seek one-week renewable extensions from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates or his representative.
"Many parts of his body were blue from bruising," Dyke said, recounting what the anonymous detainee told him.
Six years after he was cleared to leave, guards threw a hood over his head, shackled him and another detainee, and led him aboard a military plane to Algeria, a country he had not seen since he was a teenager.
Six years after he was cleared to leave, guards threw a hood over his head, and shackled him and another detainee, and led him aboard a military plane to Algeria, a country he had not seen since he was a teenager.
Relatives of some of the detainees took him up on his offer, apparently not knowing with whom they were dealing.
Ms. Cheney conveniently omitted that the court ruled in favor of his claim that the military commissions system being used to try detainees like him was illegal.
