The CIA also secretly held prisoners inside US-run military prisons including Guantánamo. [26]The US military also held thousands of foreign Muslim security detainees and Iraqi prisoners-of-war at detention centers it controlled abroad. [40] Bush’s Vice President Dick Cheney called the Guantánamo detainees “the worst of the worst.”[41] But according to Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Maj. Gen. [58]Due Process ViolationsThe Guantánamo detainees have been denied due process rights and redress for abuses. Although the CIA torture program ended with the Bush presidency, the US has continued to engage to some degree since then in unlawful counterterrorism-related detentions, interrogations, or transfers to countries that torture.

Source: Washington Post January 09, 2022 05:03 UTC