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Guillermo Bueno John Kubler English 114A 3 September 2013 Summarization of: A Deadly Interrogation Mark Swanner, a forty-six-year-old C.I.A. officer who has performed interrogations and polygraph tests for the agency, interrogated Manadel al-Jamadi. Jamadi died during an interrogation. His head had been covered with a plastic bag, and he was shackled in a crucifixion-like pose that inhibited his ability to breathe; according to forensic pathologists who have examined the case, he asphyxiated., the United States government classified Jamadis death as a homicide, Swanner, however, was set free with no charge for murder. John McCain introduced a bill in Congress that makes holding prisoner with the same standards required by the U.S. Constitution. Yet, the Senate voted 909 in favor of it. In Jamadis report it stated, He was taken to a shower room for interrogation. Some forty-five minutes later, he was dead. Jamadi was interrogated, and witness stated that he was fine before the 45 min interrogation, died after. Several of the Navy seals that captured Jamadi and delivered him to C.I.A. officials have faced abuse charges in military-justice proceedings, and have been exonerated. Further more, more concerned in protecting national security to avoiding political embarrassment, everyone is being asked to be unnamed and doesnt talk. Since September 11, 2 001, the C.I.A.s treatment and interrogation of terrorist suspects has remained almost entirely hidden from public view. Ten thousand foreign suspects are being held in U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba, and other countries yet, C.I.A. officers are never being tried in a public courtroom for manslaughter or murder. All approved interrogation techniques, both past and present, are lawful and do not constitute torture . . .. C.I.A. policies on interrogation have always followed legal guidance from the Department of Justice. If an individual violates the policy, then he or she will be held accountable. This is their justification for their actions. Examples: Beat him with a flashlight so severely that he eventually died from his injuries. The 2003 case of an Iraqi prisoner who was forced head first into a sleeping bag, then beaten And the 2002 abuse of an Afghan prisoner who froze to death after being stripped and chained to the floor of a concrete cell. A C.I.A. interrogator threatened to barbecue him if he didnt talk. Jamadi reportedly moaned, Im dying, Im dying. The interrogator replied, Youll be wishing you were dying. In addition, feared from our nation, most if not all of the sources are unmanned for example, an unidentified C.I.A. witness testified from behind a blue curtainthe officials, who did not give their names,. Jamadis death was named as a homicide, saying that the cause of death was compromised respiration and blunt force injuries to Jamadis head and torso however, none of the reports fit the description. Our country does whatever they can to keep the clean sheets and distorts all evidence and denies everything. Bushs presidency did nothing but support all the unjust treatment of these victims.