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...taken to a shower room, where his arms were pulled behind his back and shackled to window bars, forcing him to stand erect. Wearing an empty sandbag over his head, he was interrogated by a CIA officer identified in last week's issue of the New Yorker as Mark Swanner, who is not a covert operative. Roughly 90 minutes later, al-Jamadi was dead. One of the MPs who unshackled al-Jamadi's body from the window testified that blood gushed from his mouth and nose like "a faucet had turned on," flowing onto the floor where his hood...
...sources, including a U.S. government official, told TIME that when the CIA first interviewed Swanner, he withheld the fact that he had taken pictures of the corpse. It was only after another witness disclosed that fact that the pictures were obtained as evidence...
...that abducted al-Jamadi; the team leader was court-martialed but found innocent of abuse and other charges. The CIA referred al-Jamadi's death to the Justice Department, which has spent months reviewing the case and considering whether to bring criminal charges against anyone and had no comment. Swanner has not been charged with any crime and continues to work...
...Court today refused to hear the appeal of an Alaska rental agent who refused to rent to unmarried couples on the grounds that they were being sinful. Over the solo dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas, the court left intact an Alaska Supreme Court ruling that said the agent, Tom Swanner, violated state and local laws by refusing to rent to such couples. Swanner's appeal said these laws violated his First Amendment religious freedoms. Thomas argued that "there is surely no firm national policy against marital-status discrimination in housing decisions...
...dispel that cloud the House last week voted 407 to 1 to authorize a wide-ranging investigation of both the sex and drug allegations. The committee will question witnesses and review reports from the FBI and Justice Department. Shortly before a picture-taking session, reporters heard Staff Director John Swanner telling Committee Chairman Louis Stokes, an Ohio Democrat: "In two weeks' time, we should be able to finish this up." Swanner added: "Show me 10,000 ministers and I'll show you some drugs and homosexuals. People really have a taste for morbidity. This kind of thing really...