1. #TheCIA misled executive branch officials, members of Congress, and the public about #torture’s effectiveness. While #GeorgeWBush and #DickCheney steadfastly defended the CIA as the release of the report approached, the committee found that agency officials — including former directors #GeorgeTenet, #PorterGoss, and #MichaelHayden — misled the White House and lawmakers about the effectiveness of U.S. torture techniques like #waterboarding and #SleepDeprivation. 2. Interrogators would deprive some detainees of sleep for more than a week. According to the report, detainees at CIA facilities would be deprived of sleep for days on end — in some cases for up to 180 hours. During sleep deprivation, the report says, detainees were usually kept “standing or in stress positions, at times with their hands shackled above their heads.” 3. Detainees underwent waterboarding until they were unresponsive. Among the most notorious torture techniques employed by the CIA was waterboarding, which simulates drowning. The committee report states that 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times and that the waterboardings eventually turned into “a series of near drownings.” 4. The CIA force-fed detainees through their #rectums. Agency interrogators forced at least five detainees to undergo “#RectalRehydration” or “#RectalFfeeding” even in the absence of any “documented medical necessity,” the report finds. Among the most prominent prisoners subjected to rectal feeding was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:33:47 +0000
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