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Senators Call for Investigation of Alleged Drugging of Detainees
As The Washington Post reported late last month, a host of former detainees have come forward to say that they were drugged by CIA and military interrogators. Put that together with the fact that John Yoo's 2003 torture memo authorized the use of drugs on detainees, and you have plenty of grounds for suspicion.
Today Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI), Joe Biden (D-DE) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) followed up and signed letters to both the CIA and Defense Department inspectors general calling for an investigation. The letter to the DoD IG is below.
April 24, 2008
The Honorable Claude M. Kicklighter
Department of Defense
400 Army Navy Drive
Arlington , VA 22202-4704
By Facsimile & U.S. Mail
Dear Inspector General Kicklighter:
We are deeply concerned about the allegations reported in the April 23rd Washington Post article entitled Detainees Allege Being Drugged, Questioned regarding the alleged use of drugs on detainees to facilitate interrogations. They are the most recent in a series of allegations relating to the abuse and mistreatment of detainees in United States custody. Although such conduct is prohibited by U.S. law and international treaties and inconsistent with our national values, some similar allegations have since been confirmed by public reports.
As with other types of abuse, the forced administration of mind-altering drugs to facilitate interrogation appears to have been authorized by the legal analysis of John Yoo, then a lawyer in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. His memorandum authorizing such abuse reportedly overturned a decades-old U.S. ban on the use of mind-altering drugs to facilitate interrogation. President Bush recently confirmed in an interview with ABC News that the Administration's overall interrogation policy was discussed by Cabinet level national security officials, and that the President himself was aware of these discussions.
The allegations reported in the Washington Post article warrant a thorough investigation by the Inspectors General of the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Investigation of alleged abuse and mistreatment of detainees is squarely within the purview of the Inspector General's office.
Only by identifying and reforming policies and practices that violate United States law and international treaties and are inconsistent with our national values can we strengthen the international coalitions we need to fight terrorism, decrease the success of terrorists' recruitment efforts, and restore America's standing in the world. Thorough investigations are an important step in that process.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Chairman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Carl Levin
Chairman
Senate Armed Services Committee
Chuck Hagel
Senior Member
Senate Select Intelligence Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Comments (11)
Allow me to be the first to point out that Chuck Hagel is a Republican, not a Democrat.
May 8, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
TPM has a long history of making similar mistakes; I've no idea why. Usually corrections are made within a few hours. I suspect it helps to send an email since the comment threads are not monitored regularly by TPM staff.
May 8, 2008 11:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good god, we have become Mengele.
I am so proud to be an American now. I know what the German citizenry felt in the 40's.
Sick fucks in our government...and it's every American's reputation at stake.
Un friggin' real.
May 8, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even Nazi Germany new better than to torture high value prisoners for information. Sad, but true....
May 8, 2008 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hagel (R-NE)
Nice editorial work.
May 8, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
D and R are close together on the keyboard.
May 8, 2008 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look how pathetic the Democrats are?
1) THE US SEN JUD COMM knows that I contacted Sen. Grassley with my ten page memo in late November 2004.
2) This memo detailed the FBI's overt acts as part of conspiracies with NSA TsP and NSA 902nd Counterintel Group to violate the following fed laws:
----Title 18 USC sections 241, 242;
----Title 18 USC sections 1512, 1513;
----Title 18 USC sections 2510--et al., specifically SECTION 2517 PROHIBITING THE DISSEMINATION OF ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO;
----CONSPIRACY AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE statutes.
3) The Dems also know that as a result of contacting Senator Grassley, I was illegally administered a controlled substance (a sedative) to facilitate the illegal surgical installation of an RFID MIND CONTROL CHIP pursuant to The FBI RUNNING ANOTHER ILLEGAL CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE MY CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITY.
4) The chip was used by Sioux Falls FBI counterintel special agent STEVEN PLUTA who ran his "subliminal counter intel debriefing" so that the FBI COULD FIND MY EVIDENCE THAT WAS HIDDEN.
THIS EVIDENCE PROVED FBI AND LAW ENFORCEMENT'S VIOLATIONS OF NUMEROUS STATE AND FED LAWS PROHIBITING THE DISSEMINATION AND CONSPIRACY TO USE ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM WIRETAPS, BUGS, PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS, KEYSTROKE LOGGERS, GPS TRACKIGN DEVICE IN VEHICLE.
THUS...The FBI violated my Fifth Amendment rights while secretly and subliminally debriefing me?
I had secured tape recordings of my own phone calls containing disinfo that I put over my phone line, that Austin, Sioux Falls, and Minneapolis FBI used along with local law enforcement in Austin, Texas, and Sioux Falls, SD.
That's why DAVE NELSON had to collude with NSA and DOD CIFA to run an illegal neutralization of circuit court judge PETER GREGORY to get extortionate leverage on him....forcing him to turn over his copy of Nelson's bogus ex parte sworn statements in his eavesdropping warrants secured in Sioux Falls, SD.
Judge GREGORY was subliminally programmed and entrapped....all caught on tape...forcing him to join DAVE NELSONS'S, SF FBI'S, AND NSA'S CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.
THAT'S THE STORY THAT THE DEMS RUN AWAY FROM?
NEVER SEEN THE DEMS USE PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN THEIR CORRESPONDENCE OR STATEMENTS IN FRONT OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
WITH PERSONAL PRONOUNS (Dr. Mark Gordon, Rich Gordon, Mark Defenbaugh, John Kabieseman, Thomas S. Bean, Leroy Rogers, Jon Van Patten, Bob Nelson, SD Sen Tim Johnson)....NO BODY IS FOCUSING ON DUMSFIELD'S CLEAN UP OPERATION CALLED DOD'S CIFA.
MUELLER AT FBI HQ...BENEFITTED FROM LOOKING THE OTHER WAY WHILE OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE.
I NEVER ONCE GOT ANY CONTACT OR INTERVIEW WITH ANY STAFFER FOR LEAHY, BIDEN, GRASSLEY, FBI HQ, or anybody with oversight perogatives?
May 8, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bean. Get some help, dude.
May 8, 2008 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you understand what is at stake and what crimes were committed by MUELLER'S FBI, SD US ATTY, NSA, DOD, AND CIA?
Everyone I talked to about my 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint, SD Bd Med Examiners complaint....all ended up DEAD or HOSPITALIZED?
1) DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF RICH GORDON dead from brain tumor.
2) Rich's brother DR. MARK GORDON harassed by SF FBI and Minneapolis FBI who all got resigned after FBI OPR got ahold of what they were doing.
MARK GORDON WAS MONITORED WITH A PIN HOLE SPY CAMERA IN HIS HOME WHILE HE WAS FRIED WITH A DOD DEW (Directed Energy Weapon that uses microwave radiation to slowely murder people with brain strokes, brain tumors, and heart attacks.
3) YPD Sgt MARK DEFENBAUGH died in staged car accident after I talked to him over my wiretapped telephone. The conversations included the crime committed by Defenbaugh/SF FBI agent Dan Reynalds' informant who "sexually seduced Dr. Gordon at his jobsite" and EXTORTED 500$ as proven by the ATM records.
No charges for the snitch, or law enforcement.
Defenbaugh talked to his pal SD HW PATROL CAPTAIN JEFF TALBOT two hours before he was found dead. I told Talbot about this murder and gave him a tip on how he could "link the DEFENBAUGH MURDER WITH THE KABIESEMAN MURDER" by focusing on phone call records showing called and recieved numbers.
At this time....Talbot and SF FBI did not know that the phone calls proved a common number and person who HELPED SET UP THE STAGED MURDERS.
4) YANKTON ATTY JOHN KABIESEMAN murdered after I visited his law office in Yankton, SD. I was followed by NSA TSP and SF FBI knew all about it.
BOB MUELLER AT FBI HQ HAS COVERED THIS ALL UP...TO PROTECT THE FBI'S CREDIBILITY.
5) TORTURE RESULTING IN HOSPITALIZATIONS:
----Omaha attorney Leroy Rogers (tied to me...SF FBI got that info from my father, and they gave it to DOD's CIFA who then fried Rogers to induce a brain stroke).
----Vermillion SD atty JON VAN PATTEN (wheeled out of Sioux Valley Hospital nine months after I left a message on his phone machine).
----DR. MARK GORDON FRIED WHILE FORCED TO WORK WITH MINNEAPOLIS FBI who coerced Gordon's cooperation after sending a gang banging snitch to spit in his face at an OK CITY Gas Station...after SF FBI and NSA engaged in a CONSPIRACY TO STALK GORDON INTERSTATE WHILE TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS WHILE ALSO VIOLATING CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITY.
GORDON WAS TARGETED BY FBI WHO USED ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM NSA CALEA WIRETAP.
DEMS REFUSE TO GRILL MUELLER ON THESE FACTS?
May 8, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. Bean,
It is just as likely that your claims are true as they are not, due to the many dreadful things we are discovering daily about certain agencies in our government.
However, I would implore you not to use FULL CAPITALS when writing your posts for the simple reason that the perception of their use solely by people who have little or no credibility, either for reasons of mental health or slipshod leaps of logic.
If you want to get through to this audience, please ameliorate this perception with standard typographical usage and less inflammatory language.
May 8, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sweet jeez-is! What's next? Death flights. Hell, we're drugging them already....
Disgraceful.
May 8, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink