This week on q a, our guest is New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author james risen, out with his newest book, pay any price greed, power, and endless war, which exposes some of our hidden costs on the war on terror since 9 11, both around the world and here at home. James risen is an Investigative Reporter with the New York Times. He has been pursued by the bush and Obama Administrations as part of a sixyearold leak investiation related to his previous book,state of war. The governments case against him is still pending. He has stated he will go to jail rather than cooperate. Jim risen, author of pay any price greed, power and endless war. Who was Damien Corsetti . Damien corsetti was an army interrogator, an enlisted man, sent to afghanistan to be an interrogator at the collection point which was the name for the Detention Center that the u. S. Was running at the air force base and later he was an interrogator at abu ghraib for the army in iraq. And i have i tell a
That is one of the stories i think nobody wants to hear which is torture in the american torture program, we now call it torture. They came home tortured by what they had done. The people who had to go into the cells to conduct what the Bush Administration and cia and army and military all created, this infrastructure for enhanced interrogation, the people who had to lay their hands and do it physically themselves. I came home deeply warped and flawed by the experience. Where is he now . He is living in savannah, georgia. He only has 100 disability from the army because of his ptsd. And he is trying to recover and rebuild his life after and he still suffers very strongly from ptsd. How long was he assigned to abu ghraib . The very beginning of the u. S. Involvement for a few months. He came from belgram. He was involved in interrogations for a year. In his experience, he found that there was virtually no rules when he first got involved in the interrogations, the army and military was
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