CIA lied about key pieces of program
WASHINGTON – When CIA interrogators were torturing accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a secret prison in Poland in March 2003, a top CIA analyst asked them to show him a photograph of an alleged terrorist named Majid Khan.
The interrogators slapped Mohammed, denied him sleep, rehydrated him through his rectum, threatened to kill his children and waterboarded him 183 times. And he offered up details on Khan.
The analyst later told the CIA’s inspector general that Mohammed’s information helped lead to Khan’s arrest, CIA records show. The watchdog included that as a success story in a 2004 report that became public and for many years stood as the most detailed accounting of the program.
Yet the analyst, then-deputy chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit, knew Khan already had been captured in Pakistan at the time Mohammed was asked about him, according to the 520-page Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogations that was released this last week.
In other words, what she told the inspector general wasn’t true.
Portland police find ‘person of interest’
PORTLAND, Ore. – A 22-year-old man arrested in connection with a shooting outside an alternative high school in Portland has ties to a gang, as did two of the victims, police said Saturday.
Sgt. Pete Simpson said the man is a “person of interest” in the Friday shooting, but officers aren’t prepared to say whether he was the gunman, Simpson said.
Authorities are trying to find two other people connected to the shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School. Three were hospitalized, including a 16-year-old girl who was critically wounded, and a fourth person was grazed by a bullet and treated at the scene.
Simpson said two male victims have ties to gangs. The victims are students or in affiliated job-training programs, authorities said.
Associated Press
