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    CIA reports detail harsh interrogations when chief Gina Haspel led Thailand black site

    by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times Aug 10, 2018 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Newly unclassified CIA documents provide fresh details on the brutal treatment of a terrorism suspect in late 2002 at a secret prison in rural Thailand then run by Gina Haspel, who was confirmed in May as CIA director after a contentious Senate hearing.

    The 16 redacted cables between CIA headquarters in Virginia and the so-called black site prison in Thailand, which the National Security Archive at George Washington University obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, describe extended sessions of physical violence, forced

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