In a dark foreshadowing of the United States' post-9/11 descent into torture, a Guardian investigation can reveal that Richard Zuley, a detective on Chicago's north side from 1977 to 2007, repeatedly engaged in methods of interrogation resulting in at least one wrongful conviction and subsequent cases more recently thrown into doubt following allegations of abuse.
These modes usually involve interrogation, resulting in an unexpected or unwanted conclusion or an aporetic situation.
The interrogations resulted in generally useless information where detainees unsurprisingly made stuff up to try to end the torture, which in turn lead to a waste of security resources as U.S. agents followed up spurious leads including, for example, that African-American Muslim converts were being recruited for terrorism in Montana (p.92).
During his imprisonment, he reported enduring long stretches of interrogation that resulted in sleep deprivation.
It was during this time that my own grandfather who was more of an idealist than a radical was rounded up, arrested, held incommunicado, and eventually subjected to an interrogation, which resulted in his deportation order.
This week, The New Yorker published "The Assad Files," by Ben Taub, an extensive look at a trove of six hundred thousand Syrian government documents that link the country's dictator, Bashar al-Assad, to a campaign of detention and interrogation that resulted in mass torture and murder.
However, the IG report later said there was a "small interrogation breakthrough" that resulted in Rahman admitting something: that his name was Gul Rahman.
Nor will the actual CIA torturers, since the Obama Justice Department has dismissed all cases involving their brutal interrogations, even two that resulted in the deaths of prisoners.
The Olson family lawsuit alleges that during that trip, Mr. Olson witnessed extreme interrogations, some resulting in deaths, in which the C.I.A. experimented with biological agents that he had helped develop.
As the Committee report concluded, authorizations of aggressive interrogation techniques by senior officials resulted in abuse and conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees in U.S. military custody.
