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U.S. officials were warned of abuse at Afghan prisons, paper reports
Top officials received 'multiple warnings' about detainee abuses at facilities the United Nations later publicly revealed had engaged in "systematic torture."
Top U.S. officials were given warning of detainee abuse in Afghan prisons, but continued to transfer detainees to problematic facilities, The Washington Post reports.
Afghan and Western officials told the Post that top officials from the State Department, the CIA and U.S. military received "multiple warnings" about detainee abuses at Afghan intelligence facilities that the United Nations later publicly revealed had engaged in "systematic torture."
In late August, the United Nations brought allegations of this abuse to Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, who stopped transferring detainees to the problematic facilities. Earlier this month, the U.N.