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Guantánamo Transcripts Give Firsthand Accounts of CIA Torture

Pentagon Releases Tribunal Records in ACLU Lawsuit

NEW YORK —(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2016.   The Defense Department has released unredacted transcripts of Guantánamo Bay prisoners describing the torture they suffered while imprisoned in CIA black sites.

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The release came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union seeking transcripts from Combatant Status Review Tribunals, which aimed to determine whether prisoners held at Guantánamo qualified as “enemy combatants.”

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