April 07, 2016, Democracy Now
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Eric Fair: Army veteran who worked as a
contract interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He is the author of the new
book, Consequence: A Memoir.
As a former
interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security
firm CACI, Eric Fair was stationed at the Abu Ghraib
prison and in Fallujah in 2004. While in Fallujah, he witnessed a torture
device known as the Palestinian chair. He writes in his new book,
"Consequence: A Memoir," that the chair was a way to immobilize
prisoners in order to break them down both physically and mentally. He also
wrote that the Israeli military taught them how to use the Palestinian chair
during a joint training exercise. For more, we’re joined by Eric Fair, whose
new book, "Consequence: A Memoir," has just been published.
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy
Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy
Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. Our guest is Eric Fair, Army veteran who worked
as a contract interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq as well as other
places. He’s the author of the new book, Consequence: A Memoir. You’ve said
that what happened outside Abu Ghraib, what contractors did, in terms of
torture, was often worse than
