Being Innocent isn't Enough, No Justice for CIA Torture Victim El-Masri

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Being innocent is not enough to protect you from being tortured, not when you are dealing with a nation which does not uphold the rule of law. And even if they know you are innocent, that's not enough for them to stop violating your rights and release you.
But this is something I want to clarify, this video might lead you to believe he was released once they realized he was innocent but that 's not the case. When they realized he was innocent, they continued to imprison him THEN they dumped him on a back road at night in Albania. Mr. El-Masri's unlawful detention and inhumane treatment continued for two additional months after they knew he was innocent.
CIA agents held him for at least several weeks after his release had been ordered. And the injustices didn't end after he was released, he STILL can't get justice. A Munich court had issued arrest warrants against the CIA agents for complicity in his kidnapping and torture but that was dropped. And thanks to Wikileaks we know why, the US government pressured Germany to drop the case, to not pursue justice , to not allow El-Maseri his day in court.
"... similarity of his name to that of Khalid al-Masri, an Al Qaeda agent linked to the Hamburg cell where the 9/11 attacks were plotted. Despite El-Masri's protests that he was not al-Masri, he was beaten, stripped naked, shot full of drugs, given an enema and a diaper, and flown first to Baghdad and then to the notorious "salt pit," the CIA's secret interrogation facility in Afghanistan. At the salt pit, he was repeatedly beaten, drugged, and subjected to a strange food regime that he supposed was part of an experiment that his captors were performing on him. Throughout this time, El-Masri insisted that he had been falsely imprisoned, and the CIA slowly established that he was who he claimed to be. Over many further weeks of bickering over what to do, a number of CIA figures apparently argued that, though innocent, the best course was to continue to hold him incommunicado because he "knew too much.""
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/11/hbc-90007831
"The Washington Post reported that CIA agents, fearing the consequences of releasing him, argued for his continued detention and in fact held him for at least several weeks after his release had been ordered."
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/05/hbc-90007028
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,469884,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,507455,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/europe/09wikileaks-elmasri.html?_r=2&...
The media's authoritarianism and WikiLeaks
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/10/wikileaks_media/...
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/08/wikileaks/index....
Read Items 1-9 detailing revelations of State Department wrongdoing from the WikiLeaks disclosures:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/01/lieberman/index....
Wikileaks and the El-Masri case: Innocent CIA torture victim more than just a leaked cable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hh-877s01U

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[prayfortruejustice]

@lotsofbigguns It is very strange. He ignores all science and changes the topic to misdirect any immutable facts about the 9/11 events. He has done this for years. Go back and look at his prior posts. I unsubscribed from the channel along time ago, because he is a government shill or an idiot. I do not believe he suffers from normalcy bias, because he works hard to twist the truth and diverts the issues. Don't even try to communicate with him on this - waste of time. goto Buildingwhat org

[ABC123POOO]

this makes me fucking sick

[lissakr11]

You're not alone. 1000s in America have fallen prey to govt-sponsored Torture. I know. Check out my Youtube Channel. I suger-coat it, thou I am a victim as well and am no longer sitting silent. Its' War-Crimes, plain and simple. God Bless you and your family, sir.

[SaveTheWheat]

Poor man. This shit is over.

*ahem* DO YOU HEAR ME, CIA, MY DEAR PATHETIC FUCKS? Alright. Now that I have your moron attentions....watch your shit if you don't want the real mob coming for you. Bye bye and be good, muffins.

[02rich]

USA = TERRORISTS.

[RYDERkN]

@johnhatt20 never get "facts" from youtube comments



[capmeth]

i fucking love this channel,i fucking love the truth.

[capmeth]

911 was an inside job ,trust me i met someone who use to work there,a security guard who told me that everyday before 911 he heard drilling,hammering,and all kinds of noises coming from all diffrent floors,when he was permited to investigate he told me that the floors where the sounds were coming from were no trace of nails or dust or equitment or work that was done,thay were emty floors with no desk or company rented space,the government has betrade us to death and thay'll do it again,and again

[from212]

@representativepress BTW, when I say "I saw the tower collapse" I mean I was standing about 500m from it when it collapsed and I can assure you it was a controlled demolition, the grainy video footage on youtube does not compare to being there watching it fall as you feel the rumble from the explosions.

And if you don't believe I was there; 212 is the area code of NYC. My Screen name is From212.

Please reconsider your view on 9/11.

[from212]

@representativepress You seem to be pointing out irrelevant facts about 9/11 and ignoring all of the peculiar events that happened on 9/11. Like the fighter jets being busy on a hijack simulation training at the time of the hijacks. #7 had a small fire and minor damage but still managed to collapse in on itself, mimicking a controlled demolition, molten metal seen flowing out of WTC 1 & 2. Beams on ground zero appeared to be clean cut.

I saw the tower collapse. It was a controlled demolition.

[from212]

@johnhatt20 No it was not! According to the U.S. Govt. under the right circumstances you can even melt a diamond with jet fuel.

...I am being sarcastic of course.