Editors note: This article is being retracted given that the lawsuit appears to be a hoax. We regret the error, but we are leaving the story up to acknowledge that we initially ran it. For more on the hoax, click here.
The man who shot former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced Wednesday he is suing her for emotional and psychological distress he suffered as a result of his shooting rampage.
Jared Lee Loughner, who is currently in prison after being convicted of killing six people and injuring 13 others in the January 2011 Tucson incident, has demanded Giffords and the Federal Bureau of Prisons pay him $25 million in compensation.
Loughner filed a three-page lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Tucson March 18. He had insisted he was innocent since the trial, and now claims he was hand-picked to be an assassin.
In the suit, Loughner also alleges he has been waterboarded every day in prison by agents from the National Security Agency, CIA and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Loughner also claims Giffords was part of the Illuminati, a conspiracy organization that some say gives a few people the power to control world events. He also says his trial defense lawyer was a global spy agent and forced him to plead guilty.
