中央情報局 on 最終期限 to argue for 尋問 文書s secrecy

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A 連邦の 裁判官 has given the 中央情報局 until March 8 to 決定する whether it wants to try to keep some 記録,記録的な/記録するs secret about the 関係 between the 機関 and two psychologists 雇うd to develop 厳しい 尋問 methods in the war on terror.

U.S. 地区 裁判官 Justin Quackenbush in Spokane 始める,決める the 最終期限 Monday for 司法(官) Department 弁護士/代理人/検事s to 明示する which 文書s or 部分s of 文書s relating to the 中央情報局's work with Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell the 機関 wants to keep secret.

Under a 複雑にするd 過程 that comes into play with 文書s the 政府 may want to keep secret in the 指名する of 国家の 安全, the 長,率いる of the 中央情報局 or the 長,率いるs of any other 政府 機関s 伴う/関わるd in the 事例/患者 must decide which 文書 or 部分s of a 文書 should remain secret, Steven ワット, an 弁護士/代理人/検事 for the ACLU, said Tuesday.

"The 裁判官 will then 決定する if 特権 is validly invoked," ワット said.

The 文書s have been requested by 弁護士/代理人/検事s 代表するing Jessen and Mitchell in a 訴訟 とじ込み/提出するd against them by the ACLU on に代わって of three men who 競う they were 拷問d in secret 中央情報局 刑務所,拘置所s using techniques designed by the psychologists.

The 訴訟 was とじ込み/提出するd in 2015 on に代わって of Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud and the 広い地所 of Gul Rahman. They are 捜し出すing 明示していない 通貨の 損害賠償金 from the psychologists, whose company was based in Spokane.

The 事例/患者 was 延期するd by a 論争 between the U.S. 政府 and the psychologists over 政府 記録,記録的な/記録するs the psychologists want to 妨げる in 法廷,裁判所. The 政府 is not 存在 告訴するd by the ACLU.

弁護士/代理人/検事s for the 司法(官) Department had argued that more time was needed by the 中央情報局 to review the 文書s until 大統領 Donald Trump's newly 任命するd 中央情報局 director マイク Pompeo and 司法長官 Jeff 開会/開廷/会期s had time to review the 事例/患者.

Rahman, an Afghan, was taken from his home in Pakistan in 2002 to a secret 中央情報局 刑務所,拘置所 in Afghanistan. He died of hypothermia several weeks later after 存在 shackled to a 床に打ち倒す in 近づく 氷点の 条件s.

によれば the 訴訟, Salim and Ben Soud both 苦しむd waterboarding, daily beatings and sleep deprivation while inside 中央情報局 "黒人/ボイコット 場所/位置s." Salim, a Tanzanian, and Ben Soud, a Libyan, were later 解放(する)d after 公式の/役人s 決定するd they 提起する/ポーズをとるd no 脅し.

A U.S. 上院 調査 in 2014 設立する that Mitchell and Jessen's techniques produced no useful 知能 in the war on terror.

The 裁判,公判 is 始める,決める for June 26. The 裁判官 also 勧めるd the parties to 捜し出す a 解決/入植地 before 裁判,公判.

Mitchell and Jessen ran a Spokane, Washington-based company that received $81 million from the 中央情報局 to develop methods to 抽出する (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) that 含むd waterboarding, 餓死 and sleep deprivation. Barack Obama 終結させるd the 契約 with the pair in 2009.

弁護士/代理人/検事 Brian Paszamant, who 代表するs Jessen and Mitchell, has said he needs 接近 to redacted 政府 とじ込み/提出するs to defend his (弁護士の)依頼人s.

Mitchell and Jessen designed the 尋問 methods and took part in 開会/開廷/会期s with 中央情報局 囚人s, によれば the 上院 知能 委員会's 調査 into the 拷問 program.

Techniques 含むd slamming the three men into 塀で囲むs, stuffing them inside 棺-like boxes, exposing them to extreme 気温s, 餓死するing them, (打撃,刑罰などを)与えるing さまざまな 肉親,親類d of water 拷問, chaining them in 強調する/ストレス positions designed for 苦痛 and keeping them awake for days, the ACLU said.

The psychologists have said in 法廷,裁判所 文書s that they used 厳しい 策略 but 否定するd 主張s of 拷問 and war 罪,犯罪s.

The 司法(官) Department got 伴う/関わるd in the 事例/患者 to 代表する the 政府's 利益/興味s in keeping 分類するd (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) secret but has not tried to 封鎖する the 訴訟.

The ACLU has said all (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) needed for the 事例/患者 to proceed has been とじ込み/提出するd.

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