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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew York Review of Books slams CIA with Twitter attack
On Friday, the CIA officially joined Twitter. Somewhat against the generally accepted nature of the agency, its first tweet was coyly playful, saying: We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
Later the same day, through its own Twitter account, the New York Review of Books released a barrage of 140-character reminders of the surveillance agency's controversial interrogation techniques.
In rapid succession, the account tweeted out the contents page of a confidential 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross, entitled Report on the Treatment of Fourteen High Value Detainees in CIA Custody.
The contents page, which documented interrogation tactics used at the CIA's secret offshore prisons known as black sites, was published in a 2009 NYRB article by Mark Danner, US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites.
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1. Main Elements of the CIA Detention Program
1.1 Arrest and Transfer
1.2 Continuous Solitary Confinement
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1.3 Other Methods of Ill-treatment
1.3.1 Suffocation by water
1.3.2 Prolonged Stress Standing
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1.3.3 Beatings by use of a collar
1.3.4 Beating and kicking
1.3.5 Confinement in a box
1.3.6 Prolonged nudity
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1.3.9 Prolonged use of handcuffs and shackles
1.3.10 Threats
1.3.11 Forced shaving
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1.3.7 Sleep deprivation and use of loud music
1.3.8 Exposure to cold temperature/cold water
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1.3.12 Deprivation/restricted provision of solid food
1.4 Further elements of the detention regime
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The allegations of ill-treatment of the detainees indicate that, in many cases, the ill-treatment
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to which they were subjected while held in the @CIA program, either singly or in combination, constituted torture. http://j.mp/ZuvFuz
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/cia-twitter-new-york-review-books-attack