Amy Goodman
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A Torturer’s Confession: Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator Speaks Out
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April 7, 2016
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9:32Now PlayingEric Fair served as an interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security firm CACI. He was stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison and in Fallujah in 2004. In a new memoir, Fair writes about feeling haunted by what he did, what he saw and what he heard in Iraq, from the beating of prisoners to witnessing the use of sleep deprivation, stress positions and isolation to break prisoners. The military described such actions as "enhanced interrogations," but Eric Fair uses another wordtorture. He writes, "If God is on anyone’s side in Iraq, it’s not mine."
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