CIA cables detail interrogation at base run by CIA director
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly declassified documents released Friday graphically describe how an accused al-Qaida operative was stripped naked, repeatedly slammed against walls, waterboarded and confined in boxes for hours at a covert detention site that CIA Director Gina Haspel briefly oversaw after 9/11. The harsh treatment of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the secret lockup in Thailand has been revealed before, and came under the spotlight during Haspel`s contentious Senate confirmation this spring. About a dozen new documents, obtained by the nonprofit National Security Archive, provide more detail. According to one cable, an interrogator `snarled` at al-Nashiri and told him: `You are our...