overboard and abused a detainee that he was interrogating. this was not in iraq, but an afghan detainee. and that was a case that i m very proud of. that was the case of the it was a homicide. yes, it was a homicide. his abuse of that detainee led to that was the case. i m sorry. the case was rahman i don t remember the exact location. i think it was in the salt pit . the interrogator s last name was pasaro and we prosecuted him in, i think, the middle district of north carolina is my recollection. and he was convicted and he was sentenced. and i think that was not only an important case in its own right, but i think sent an important message of the criminal message intolerance for that misconduct. now, to the rest of your question, we talked about this in our meeting. i can tell you that during my
contractor who had gone overboard and abused a detainee that he was interrogating. it was not in iraq, but it was an afghan detainee. that was a case that was the case it was a homicide? yes. it was a homicide. his abuse of that detainee led that was the case. i m sorry? it was in salt pit? i don t remember the exact location. i think it was in the salt pit. i do know it was an afghan detainee. the interrogator s last name was pasaro. my recollection is we prosecuted him in i think the middle district of north carolina is my recollection. he was convicted. he was sentenced. i think that was not only an important case in its own right but i think septembnt a message the intolerance of that conduct. as to the rest of your question, we talked about this in our
u.s. senate published its torture report, that prison at bagram got shut down. now, in order to close that prison, the u.s. had to hand over to the afghans anybody who we were still holding there at bagram, and it turns out one of the people we were still holding there was a guy who had a starring role in the torture report. so bagram s a big air base, it s never been a secret that the u.s. military operated not just a base but also a prison there, but in addition to overt facilities like that, the u.s. also ran secret prisons in afghanistan basically from the very beginning including one that was known as the dark prison or the salt pit. in the senate torture report that s just come out, this facility is called cobalt. turns out that the very first prisoner who the cia ever held and tortured at cobalt is this guy who was still in u.s. custody as of yesterday who only got handed over to the afghans yesterday on the day that the torture report came out.
base outside kabul where u.s. forces have been based for well over a decade now. that facility has included a prison, but the day after the u.s. senate published its torture report, that prison at bagram got shut down. now, in order to close that prison, the u.s. had to hand over to the afghans anybody who we were still holding there at bagram, and it turns out one of the people we were still holding there was a guy who had a starring role in the torture report. so bagram s a big air base, it s never been a secret that the u.s. military operated not just a base but also a prison there, but in addition to overt facilities like that, the u.s. also ran secret prisons in afghanistan basically from the very beginning including one that was known as the dark prison or the salt pit. in the senate torture report that s just come out, this facility is called cobalt. turns out that the very first prisoner who the cia ever held and tortured at cobalt is this guy who was still in u.s. custody as o
an interrogation, ever, in the real world. never. no experience. and the cia hired him. we didn t have a torture bram. now, they also needed somewhere to operate. you might have previously heard it described as the salt pit or as the dark prison. it was in afghanistan. more than half of the 119 prisons held in the c.i.a. looked at today, more than half spent at least some of their time at cobalt at the salt pit. to run that facility, the cia sent over to afghanistan, quote\, a junior officer on his first overseas assignmented. and once there, once set up, at that facility, they kind of freelanced. the krerks ia kept few formal