All the individuals and institutions whose names appear on this document: Ms. Swords, Mr. Laporte, CEFCOM, National Defence Headquarters, Sinclair, you know them all.
In this document, acts of torture are mentioned on several occasions. I will quote certain passages that I will have to interpret, because many of them are redacted. This is what the document says:
Of the...detainees we interviewed...said...had been whipped with cables, shocked with electricity and/or otherwise “hurt” while in NDS custody in Kandahar. This period of alleged abuse lasted from between....
They don't say here.
The document goes on like this and does contain complaints from prisoners, which were pointed out to you by Mr. Colvin and Ms. Bloodworth in a cc.
That's not all. It continues:
He said that, while being detained...he came and spoke with him once. He, and others, told the...that three fellow detainees had had their “fingers cut and burned with a lighter” while in NDS detention. ... When we asked about his own treatment...he said that he was hit on his feet with a cable or “big wire” and forced to stand for two days, but “that's all”.
Did you obtain a copy of the document that I am reading to you, as a cc, approved by Ambassador Lalani?