Monday, February 13, 2006

 

CIA chief sacked for opposing torture

`The CIA�s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as �water boarding�, intelligence sources have claimed. [..]

Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of counter-terrorism at the agency, said: �It is not that Grenier wasn�t aggressive enough, it is that he wasn�t �with the programme�. He expressed misgivings about the secret prisons in Europe and the rendition of terrorists.�

Grenier also opposed �excessive� interrogation, such as strapping suspects to boards and dunking them in water, according to Cannistraro.’




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