Passaro will serve 8 years for beating
Former CIA contractor David Passaro, the only person associated with the agency to be prosecuted for prisoner abuse, was sentenced Tuesday to eight years, four months in prison for beating an Afghan detainee who later died.
Passaro guilty of assault on ex-girlfriend
David Passaro, a former CIA contractor convicted last month in the beating of an Afghan prisoner who later died, was convicted Friday of assaulting a former girlfriend.
Passaro's attorneys want assault conviction set aside
A conviction against a former CIA contractor found guilty of assaulting an Afghan detainee should be set aside because jurors assumed he committed the crime, his attorneys say.
Passaro trial raises issue of soldiers' roles
The 82nd Airborne soldiers' testimony helped convict David Passaro of felony assault but also raised questions about why they didn't face charges as well.
Passaro convicted of assaulting Afghan
The former CIA contractor is found guilty of beating a prisoner in Afghanistan. David Passaro, not shown, faces as little as two years in prison or as much as 11 1/2, experts say.
Passaro jury reaches partial verdict
A federal jury has reached a partial verdict but will continue deliberating today to decide whether former CIA contractor David Passaro is guilty of all four charges of assaulting an Afghan man on a remote U.S. military base.
Passaro's defense rests case
No evidence of severe injuries, forensic pathologist testifies.
Specifics unfold in detainee beating
CIA contractor David Passaro is on trial this week charged with beating Abdul Wali for two consecutive nights in June 2003. Testimony Wednesday and Thursday by a CIA interpreter and six 82nd Airborne soldiers who guarded Wali pieced together the brutal details of these late-night interrogations.
Witness testifies how Passaro beat a suspect
A sergeant gives details of Wali's violent interrogation.
Young Afghan adds chapter to striking story
Afghan-American Said Hyder Akbar flew to Raleigh for David Passaro's trial because he played a key role in the life and death of Abdul Wali: Akbar helped deliver Wali to a U.S. Army base in Afghanistan and assured him he'd be OK in American custody.
Agents give trial air of mystery
A series of CIA employees testified Tuesday about David Passaro's work at a remote Afghanistan base. One agent's account was a boon to federal prosecutors' assault case: He said Passaro, then a CIA contractor, admitted kicking an Afghan detainee in the groin.
Afghan's deadly beating detailed
David Passaro's case has received international attention because he is the first person associated with the Central Intelligence Agency to be tried on charges of abusing a detainee.
Raleigh is stage as U.S. prosecutes detainee abuse
The trial of David A. Passaro, a former CIA contractor accused of beating an Afghan detainee, brings the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan to North Carolina's capital city, thousands of miles from the war.
Judge: Passaro can't have classified documents
A former CIA contractor charged with beating an Afghan detainee who later died can't use several classified memos and e-mail when his trial starts next week.
Judge sends Passaro back to jail
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former CIA contractor David Passaro to remain in jail because he violated his court-ordered release with an evening of carousing. Passaro, 39, was let out of jail so he could help his attorneys prepare for his upcoming trial on charges of beating an Afghan detainee.
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