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...interviews, three former prisoners jailed in the Damascus facility told Grey that they were regularly beaten by Syrian interrogators, and that they had been held in cells barely longer and wider than coffins. While in solitary confinement, they say they communicated with each other in snatched conversations through the walls, and sensed the presence of other prisoners also through their screams during torture sessions. One former prisoner told Grey that he had spoken through the walls with a jailed teenager, who told the man he had been transferred from Pakistan to Syria by U.S.agents. The adult prisoner recalled the teenager...
...After days of beatings, Arar wrote a false statement saying he had been trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan. "I was ready to accept a 10-, 20-year sentence, and say anything, just to get to another place," he tells Grey in the book. After nearly a year in captivity, Arar was released and flew home to his family in Canada. A 1,200-page Canadian government report last month absolved him of any suspicion. Arar sued the U.S. government, but a New York federal judge dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that the case could not be heard...
...Grey, a former South Asia correspondent and investigative reporter with the Sunday Times of London, says his interest in the CIA program was sparked in December 2001 by an offhand remark made to him by Porter Goss, the former CIA Director who at the time was still a Republican Congressman from Florida and head of the House intelligence committee. In an interview with Goss in his office on Capitol Hill, Grey asked if President Clinton should have arranged the secret kidnapping of Osama bin Laden. Goss replied that such a program in fact existed. "It's called a rendition...
...Grey says he then embarked on basic "shoe-leather reporting," criss-crossing between Washington, the Middle East, Europe and Pakistan over the next few years. Ultimately he detailed 89 renditions involving 87 prisoners, several of whom he says had not previously been documented. But Grey says he believes "hundreds" of others have not been identifed. In interviews, former CIA agents who had worked in the renditions program told Grey the numbers of renditions were "in the low hundreds." Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee in February last year that with rendered prisoners, "once out of our control, there is only...
...Grey says he obtained key evidence from an insider in the aviation industry - whom he has kept anonymous - who faxed him lengthy flight logs to his London home, allowing Grey to trace the paths of hundreds of supposedly secret CIA flights. Still, given the explosive nature of the CIA program, some details were astonishingly easy for Grey to find. The CIA neglected to cover their tracks in key areas. The agency did not request confidentiality on professional aviation tracking websites, which allow certain flights to remain unrecorded for security reasons. The online databases helped fill out the details for Grey...