Valtin had this in a diary that was rescued last night. But this was just front paged on Firedoglake, and this is so awful and so horrific that I think it bears repeating, over and over, until the sick bastards like Dick Cheney who are responsible for this are forced to the docket to face justice.
A British official has admitted that one of the "aggressive interrogation techniques" used on British subject Mr Binyam Mohamed included slicing his genitals with a scalpel.
As looseheadprop points out on Firedoglake:
Remember, Cheney said that they ordered each technique individually from the White House.
Here are some of the quotes from the London Sunday Telegraph article that Valtin covered in his diary:
Material in a CIA dossier on Mr Mohamed that was blacked out by High Court judges contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to his captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Intelligence sources have revealed that spy chiefs put pressure on Mr Miliband to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution, or to jeopardise relations with the CIA, which is passing them "top notch" information on British terrorist suspects from its own informers in Britain....
The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said.
Let's look at that last sentence again:
other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did.
As looseheadprop points out on Firedoglake, the overwhelming horror of these revelation completely demolishes any possible legal defense by the perpetrators that they were relying in good faith on legal opinions issued by the White House counsel and other authorities.