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NEW YORK 鈥� The 老澳门开奖结果 filed suit today against the federal Bureau of Prisons for refusing to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to its officials鈥� visit in 2002 to a CIA detention site in Afghanistan, their positive assessment of the conditions, and the training they provided to the site鈥檚 administrators. Code-named COBALT and also called 鈥渢he Salt Pit,鈥� the site held people suspected of terrorism, and they were tortured there, according to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee鈥檚 torture report that was declassified in 2014. In 2015, the Bureau of Prisons declined the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 FOIA request for documents related to the COBALT visit, writing that 鈥渘o such records exist.鈥�

鈥淲hat business did the Bureau of Prisons have with a torture site in Afghanistan?鈥� asked Carl Takei, staff attorney at the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 National Prison Project. 鈥淭he bureau controls conditions for the 200,000 federal prisoners in the United States while teaching its methods to jails and state prisons around the country. We have to wonder why a team from that institution would give its approval to a place where prisoners are kept in solitary confinement in near-total darkness 24-7, shackled to the wall standing up, and with a bucket for human waste.鈥�

According to the Senate torture report, the Bureau of Prisons deemed COBALT, which operated from 2002 to 2004, as 鈥溾�榥ot inhumane.鈥欌�� The team that visited the site was 鈥溾�榳owed鈥欌�� by the level of sensory deprivation the CIA had achieved. After the report was released, the 老澳门开奖结果 made its FOIA request for Bureau of Prisons documents pertaining to the COBALT visit, and in April 2015, the bureau responded that they didn鈥檛 have any.

鈥淲e asked the Bureau of Prisons for any and all documents related to an official government trip taken halfway around the world, but they came up with nothing, not a single email,鈥� Takei said. 鈥淎nyone who has traveled for work would agree that this is difficult to pull off without a paper trail, yet that鈥檚 what the Bureau of Prisons would have us believe. This trip has been documented by the United States Senate. It鈥檚 time to come clean.鈥�

The Bureau of Prisons is part of the Department of Justice.

The 老澳门开奖结果 is represented by itself, the 老澳门开奖结果 of the Nation鈥檚 Capital, and David Sobel.

The complaint in 老澳门开奖结果 v. Department of Justice is available here:
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