Our Man in Damascus: When Syria Deployed Its Torture Chambers and Torturers for the CIA

Sednaya prison, where more than 100,000 Syrians, many of them political dissidents, some of them children of dissidents, were tortured and held in wretched conditions over the last 25 years.

With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not that long ago, when Assad was on more amicable terms with the American regime and opened his dungeons to the CIA for the torture and interrogation of unfortunate people...