These Are War Crimes': Shocking Details Emerge of U.S. Resident Majid Khan’s Torture By CIA, In a meeting with Democracy Now!, J. Wells Dixon, the lawyer for Majid Khan, talked about the CIA torment case encompassing his customer - points of interest of which were as of late declassified. That data uncovered some stunning things that Khan - a previous inhabitant of Baltimore who has been in detainment since 2003, first at a CIA dark site and afterward later at Guantanamo - experienced, for example, being waterboarded, beaten, and rectally-nourished. "It's shocking," Dixon told Nermeen Shaikh. "As you specified prior, he was waterboarded twice in 2003. He was subjected to sexual misuse. He was subjected to amazing tactile hardship. Furthermore, he endured colossally as an aftereffect of this. That is to say, its totally stunning what was done to him."
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Shocking new points of interest have developed about how the CIA tormented a previous occupant of Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detainment since 2003, first at a CIA dark site, then at Guantánamo. Majid Khan is the main known lawful occupant of the United States to be held at Guantánamo. Over the course of the years, Khan has point by point U.S. torment practices to his lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights, however as of not long ago a significant part of the data stayed arranged. As per the declassified notes, Khan was waterboarded on two different events, he was held tight a wooden shaft for quite a long time, he spent a lot of 2003 altogether haziness, and he encountered rehashed beatings and dangers to beat him with apparatuses, including a sledge. Majid Khan additionally confronted rectal sustaining, which his legal counselors depicted as a type of assault. Part of Khan's torment was delineated in a year ago's Senate torment report, yet the declassified data gives new points of interest on the misuse.
AMY GOODMAN: Majid Khan is a 35-year-old Pakistani subject who moved on from Owings Mills High School in Baltimore. He was caught in Pakistan in 2003, then allegedly held at a unidentified CIA dark site from 2003 to 2006. In the recently discharged reports about his examinations at the CIA dark site, Khan says operators let him know, cite, "Child, we are going to deal with you. ... We are going to send you to a spot you can't envision." He later admitted to conveying $50,000 to al-Qaeda agents in Indonesia and to plotting with 9/11 driving force Khalid Sheik Mohammed to serve as a sleeper operators for al-Qaeda in the United States.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: In 2012, Khan confessed to scheme, material bolster, murder and spying charges in return for serving as an administration witness.
Indeed, for additional, we're joined by Majid Khan's attorney, Wells Dixon. He's a ranking staff lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Welcome to Democracy Now!, Wells Dixon. Would you be able to discuss how you came to speak to Majid Khan?
J. WELLS DIXON: Sure. Along these lines, in March of 2003, Majid Khan vanished. His family had no clue where he was, and he wasn't got notification from until he showed up in Guantánamo in September of 2006. However, instantly before he landed in Guantánamo, throughout a criminal case that was being attempted here in New York, his name came up. Furthermore, the legislature presented at that trial a stipulation, a composed archive that recognized that they had him in care. What's more, the report indicated to depict things that he would say in regards to what was going ahead in the trial. So that was the first occasion when that his family realized that he was in U.S. care. Also, after that, we were in contact with his family, and they requesting that we record a case to test the legitimateness of his confinement.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And it was in 2012 that Khan consented to a supplication arrangement? Would you be able to disclose what it intends to consent to a supplication arrangement and what the effect of that has been on his case?
J. WELLS DIXON: Sure. In this way, for a long time, we spoke to that we were speaking to Majid, he was testing the legitimateness of his confinement. However, in mid 2012, he was charged by a military commission with different offenses. Furthermore, he at last consented to an arrangement in which he consented to confess and to chip in with the legislature. He turned into a collaborating witness for the administration. Also, he did that for—truly, for one focal reason, and that will be that he was sad for the things that he had done, and he truly needed to compensate for the things that he had done. What's more, this was a route for him to acknowledge obligation, to truly get up and go with his life and to ideally have some chance at an existence after Guantánamo. You know, he didn't need his CIA torment and his time at Guantánamo to be the last part written in his life.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, and would you be able to discuss this—the data now that has been declassified, what Majid Khan asserts was done to him by CIA examiners? That is to say, some of this material is very staggering.
J. WELLS DIXON: Well, its sickening. As you said before, he was waterboarded twice in 2003. He was subjected to sexual ill-use. He was subjected to amazing tactile hardship. Furthermore, he endured massively as an aftereffect of this. That is to say, its completely sickening what was done to him.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, I need to swing to a remark by previous U.S. Equity Department lawyer John Yoo, who assumed a key part in drafting the Bush organization torment notices. In December, he showed up on CNN after the arrival of the Senate advisory group provide details regarding the CIA's utilization of torment. He was gotten some information about the assertions of torment, which incorporate about Majid Khan, for example, constrained rectal sustaining. This was Yoo's reaction.
JOHN YOO: I concur with you. In the event that these things happened as they're depicted in the report, as you depict them, those were not approved by the Justice Department. They shouldn't be done, and those individuals who did those are at danger lawfully on the grounds that they were acting outside their requests.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: That was John Yoo talking on CNN. Would you be able to remark on what he said?
J. WELLS DIXON: Yeah, so there you have it. That is to say, in the Senate report, there was a divulgence, the way that Majid had been assaulted. What's more, you have there the lawful planner of the CIA torment program, the legal advisor who truly composed the reminders that permitted the torment to happen, saying that is not something that he approved and that that is something that would damage the opposition to torment statute.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And what might be said about the way that he—you said prior that he lamented, he needed to make up for what he had done. How would we take his cases of confirmation, given the way that they assert for whatever it is that he's admitted to, they all came after he was subjected to this torment, is that right?
J. WELLS DIXON: Yes, he consented to concede and to participate subsequent to being tormented. What's more, what's essential to see about that will be that he consented to confess notwithstanding what had transpired, not due to what had transpired. You know, as you may envision, the choice to trust the legislature, to commit to a conviction-based move, to utilize the words that he utilized at his liable request, was extremely troublesome, given the actuality the he had been waterboarded and assaulted and subjected to these different repulsions. Yet, he truly, really accepts that that was—that that is something that is important for him to do to put his earlier life behind him and to proceed onward with his life.
AMY GOODMAN: Wells Dixon, would you be able to discuss how you, as a lawyer speaking to him, knowing what has transpired over the course of the years, how you work these arrangements with the administration about what you can and can't uncover or say?
J. WELLS DIXON: Right, well, the Center for Constitutional Rights has long been on record contradicting Guantánamo, restricting the CIA torment program and raising genuine complaints to the military commissions framework. Having said that, our first intrigue dependably is the best enthusiasm of our customers. Thus I, as guidance for Majid Khan, need to do what's in his best lawful hobby, and eventually what he guides me to do. What's more, he settled on a choice that he needed to confess and collaborate, that he truly needed to attempt to give penance for what he had done. Also, this is the way that he can do that. He is focused on satisfying to his commitment to collaborate in the commissions framework. However, you know, whether the administration were to choose, for instance, that it needed to exchange his collaboration here to a criminal court in the United States, he would positively be open to that. What's more, you know, I, as his direction, feel that there are arrangement reasons why that may be something worth being thankful for to do, despite the imperfections, you know, even in our criminal equity framework. In any case, its up to the legislature. It's truly up to the administration whether that happens.
AMY GOODMAN: I need to peruse from a Reuters report about the recently discharged subtle elements of Majid Khan's treatment in a CIA dark site: cite, "In a July 2003 session, Khan said, CIA gatekeepers hooded and hung him from a metal post for a few days and over and again poured ice water on his mouth, nose and private parts. At a certain point, he said, they constrained him to sit stripped on a wooden box amid a 15-moment recorded session. After that, Khan said, he was shackled to a divider, which kept him from dozing.
"At the point when a specialist landed to check his condition, [Majid] Khan asked for help, he said. Rather, Khan said, the specialist taught the watchmen to again hang him from the metal bar. In the wake of swinging from the shaft for 24 hours, Khan was compelled to compose an "admission" while being recorded stripped."
That is a portion from a report by Reuters. Can you remark on this, generally speaking, Wells, additionally discuss the part of specialists, the part of clinicians, or what you caught wind of what happened in this CIA dark site?
J. WELLS DIXON: Well, one of the things that we got declassified was Majid's editorial on what had transpired, how it felt and what he was encountering as these things happened. What's more, one of the things that he has said is that specialists were among the most exceedingly awful torturers that he had. Furthermore, I thi
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Shocking new points of interest have developed about how the CIA tormented a previous occupant of Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detainment since 2003, first at a CIA dark site, then at Guantánamo. Majid Khan is the main known lawful occupant of the United States to be held at Guantánamo. Over the course of the years, Khan has point by point U.S. torment practices to his lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights, however as of not long ago a significant part of the data stayed arranged. As per the declassified notes, Khan was waterboarded on two different events, he was held tight a wooden shaft for quite a long time, he spent a lot of 2003 altogether haziness, and he encountered rehashed beatings and dangers to beat him with apparatuses, including a sledge. Majid Khan additionally confronted rectal sustaining, which his legal counselors depicted as a type of assault. Part of Khan's torment was delineated in a year ago's Senate torment report, yet the declassified data gives new points of interest on the misuse.
AMY GOODMAN: Majid Khan is a 35-year-old Pakistani subject who moved on from Owings Mills High School in Baltimore. He was caught in Pakistan in 2003, then allegedly held at a unidentified CIA dark site from 2003 to 2006. In the recently discharged reports about his examinations at the CIA dark site, Khan says operators let him know, cite, "Child, we are going to deal with you. ... We are going to send you to a spot you can't envision." He later admitted to conveying $50,000 to al-Qaeda agents in Indonesia and to plotting with 9/11 driving force Khalid Sheik Mohammed to serve as a sleeper operators for al-Qaeda in the United States.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: In 2012, Khan confessed to scheme, material bolster, murder and spying charges in return for serving as an administration witness.
Indeed, for additional, we're joined by Majid Khan's attorney, Wells Dixon. He's a ranking staff lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Welcome to Democracy Now!, Wells Dixon. Would you be able to discuss how you came to speak to Majid Khan?
J. WELLS DIXON: Sure. Along these lines, in March of 2003, Majid Khan vanished. His family had no clue where he was, and he wasn't got notification from until he showed up in Guantánamo in September of 2006. However, instantly before he landed in Guantánamo, throughout a criminal case that was being attempted here in New York, his name came up. Furthermore, the legislature presented at that trial a stipulation, a composed archive that recognized that they had him in care. What's more, the report indicated to depict things that he would say in regards to what was going ahead in the trial. So that was the first occasion when that his family realized that he was in U.S. care. Also, after that, we were in contact with his family, and they requesting that we record a case to test the legitimateness of his confinement.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And it was in 2012 that Khan consented to a supplication arrangement? Would you be able to disclose what it intends to consent to a supplication arrangement and what the effect of that has been on his case?
J. WELLS DIXON: Sure. In this way, for a long time, we spoke to that we were speaking to Majid, he was testing the legitimateness of his confinement. However, in mid 2012, he was charged by a military commission with different offenses. Furthermore, he at last consented to an arrangement in which he consented to confess and to chip in with the legislature. He turned into a collaborating witness for the administration. Also, he did that for—truly, for one focal reason, and that will be that he was sad for the things that he had done, and he truly needed to compensate for the things that he had done. What's more, this was a route for him to acknowledge obligation, to truly get up and go with his life and to ideally have some chance at an existence after Guantánamo. You know, he didn't need his CIA torment and his time at Guantánamo to be the last part written in his life.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, and would you be able to discuss this—the data now that has been declassified, what Majid Khan asserts was done to him by CIA examiners? That is to say, some of this material is very staggering.
J. WELLS DIXON: Well, its sickening. As you said before, he was waterboarded twice in 2003. He was subjected to sexual ill-use. He was subjected to amazing tactile hardship. Furthermore, he endured massively as an aftereffect of this. That is to say, its completely sickening what was done to him.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, I need to swing to a remark by previous U.S. Equity Department lawyer John Yoo, who assumed a key part in drafting the Bush organization torment notices. In December, he showed up on CNN after the arrival of the Senate advisory group provide details regarding the CIA's utilization of torment. He was gotten some information about the assertions of torment, which incorporate about Majid Khan, for example, constrained rectal sustaining. This was Yoo's reaction.
JOHN YOO: I concur with you. In the event that these things happened as they're depicted in the report, as you depict them, those were not approved by the Justice Department. They shouldn't be done, and those individuals who did those are at danger lawfully on the grounds that they were acting outside their requests.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: That was John Yoo talking on CNN. Would you be able to remark on what he said?
J. WELLS DIXON: Yeah, so there you have it. That is to say, in the Senate report, there was a divulgence, the way that Majid had been assaulted. What's more, you have there the lawful planner of the CIA torment program, the legal advisor who truly composed the reminders that permitted the torment to happen, saying that is not something that he approved and that that is something that would damage the opposition to torment statute.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And what might be said about the way that he—you said prior that he lamented, he needed to make up for what he had done. How would we take his cases of confirmation, given the way that they assert for whatever it is that he's admitted to, they all came after he was subjected to this torment, is that right?
J. WELLS DIXON: Yes, he consented to concede and to participate subsequent to being tormented. What's more, what's essential to see about that will be that he consented to confess notwithstanding what had transpired, not due to what had transpired. You know, as you may envision, the choice to trust the legislature, to commit to a conviction-based move, to utilize the words that he utilized at his liable request, was extremely troublesome, given the actuality the he had been waterboarded and assaulted and subjected to these different repulsions. Yet, he truly, really accepts that that was—that that is something that is important for him to do to put his earlier life behind him and to proceed onward with his life.
AMY GOODMAN: Wells Dixon, would you be able to discuss how you, as a lawyer speaking to him, knowing what has transpired over the course of the years, how you work these arrangements with the administration about what you can and can't uncover or say?
J. WELLS DIXON: Right, well, the Center for Constitutional Rights has long been on record contradicting Guantánamo, restricting the CIA torment program and raising genuine complaints to the military commissions framework. Having said that, our first intrigue dependably is the best enthusiasm of our customers. Thus I, as guidance for Majid Khan, need to do what's in his best lawful hobby, and eventually what he guides me to do. What's more, he settled on a choice that he needed to confess and collaborate, that he truly needed to attempt to give penance for what he had done. Also, this is the way that he can do that. He is focused on satisfying to his commitment to collaborate in the commissions framework. However, you know, whether the administration were to choose, for instance, that it needed to exchange his collaboration here to a criminal court in the United States, he would positively be open to that. What's more, you know, I, as his direction, feel that there are arrangement reasons why that may be something worth being thankful for to do, despite the imperfections, you know, even in our criminal equity framework. In any case, its up to the legislature. It's truly up to the administration whether that happens.
AMY GOODMAN: I need to peruse from a Reuters report about the recently discharged subtle elements of Majid Khan's treatment in a CIA dark site: cite, "In a July 2003 session, Khan said, CIA gatekeepers hooded and hung him from a metal post for a few days and over and again poured ice water on his mouth, nose and private parts. At a certain point, he said, they constrained him to sit stripped on a wooden box amid a 15-moment recorded session. After that, Khan said, he was shackled to a divider, which kept him from dozing.
"At the point when a specialist landed to check his condition, [Majid] Khan asked for help, he said. Rather, Khan said, the specialist taught the watchmen to again hang him from the metal bar. In the wake of swinging from the shaft for 24 hours, Khan was compelled to compose an "admission" while being recorded stripped."
That is a portion from a report by Reuters. Can you remark on this, generally speaking, Wells, additionally discuss the part of specialists, the part of clinicians, or what you caught wind of what happened in this CIA dark site?
J. WELLS DIXON: Well, one of the things that we got declassified was Majid's editorial on what had transpired, how it felt and what he was encountering as these things happened. What's more, one of the things that he has said is that specialists were among the most exceedingly awful torturers that he had. Furthermore, I thi
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