[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              THE CIA SHOULD RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, this week, The New Yorker's Jane 
Mayer, reported on the CIA's abduction, rendition and torturing of an 
innocent man.
  A businessman named Khaled al-Masri, was abducted in one country, 
renditioned to another, where he was stripped naked and chained and 
given putrid water to drink.
  A number of CIA officials believed from the beginning that he was 
innocent, but his CIA supervisor, who has since been promoted twice, 
overruled them. Finally, 149 days later, they went over the 
supervisor's head, insisting that his innocence be acknowledged, and 
got him released.
  Another CIA captive froze to death, chained to a concrete floor and 
was buried in an unmarked grave.
  Mr. Speaker, as Director Panetta tries to restore the agency's 
reputation, it is necessary that he not only acknowledge the wrongs of 
the past, but that he not promote those who committed them.

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