Word: swanner
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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...