8-year sentence in CIA beating death
From Times Wire Reports
A former CIA contractor convicted of beating an Afghan detainee who later died was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison.
David A. Passaro, 40, was accused of hitting Abdul Wali with a flashlight and kicking him in the groin during a two-day interrogation at a remote military base in Afghanistan in July 2003.
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