Jim risen, author of pay any price greed, power and endless war. Damien carr said he carsetti . Interrogator 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. Have i tell a story in my book about how he came back from iraq and afghanistan after being involved in harsh interrogations with ptsd based conducted a lot of interrogations. And it is a story that i think is very important because it ,hows and he said this to me virtually everyone he knew from his unit involved in interrogations came home with ptsd from conducting harsh interrogations. That is one of the stories i think nobody wants to hear which is torture and 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 to conduct what the Bush Administration and cia and army and military al
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
This morning on sunday morning futures. President obama entered office on Campaign Promises of a more Multi Lateral militaryow approach. Now, six years later, drone strikes upon u. S. Citizens in the middle east and power vacuums in countries where the arab spring overthrew death pods, the u. S. Is facing a new mission creep, creep right back into iraq. It appears every time this president attempts to define the Obama Doctrine, events changes. What will his legacy be . Rick is a former spokesman for four u. S. Ambassadors to the u. N. Hes a fellow at the Prague Freedom Foundation and retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash is an analyst. Thank you so much for joining us. Good to have you. Rick, what is the president s vision in terms of Foreign Policy . How would you define it . Well, im not sure he has a vision. I think thats been the problem. If you can about they Obama Doctrine, ive read quite a bit on this, and i think its the war or ignore strategy. The president came in, promising us to