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octoberlib

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Sun Jun 8, 2014, 02:27 AM Jun 2014

New 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.



NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
1. Main Elements of the CIA Detention Program
1.1 Arrest and Transfer
1.2 Continuous Solitary Confinement
@CIA http://j.mp/ZuvFuz

NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
1.3 Other Methods of Ill-treatment
1.3.1 Suffocation by water
1.3.2 Prolonged Stress Standing
@CIA http://j.mp/ZuvFuz

NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
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
@CIA http://j.mp/ZuvFuz

NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
1.3.9 Prolonged use of handcuffs and shackles
1.3.10 Threats
1.3.11 Forced shaving
@CIA http://j.mp/ZuvFuz


NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
1.3.7 Sleep deprivation and use of loud music
1.3.8 Exposure to cold temperature/cold water
@CIA http://j.mp/ZuvFuz


NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
1.3.12 Deprivation/restricted provision of solid food
1.4 Further elements of the detention regime
@CIA http://j.mp/ZuvFuz

NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
“The allegations of ill-treatment of the detainees indicate that, in many cases, the ill-treatment …” @CIA (cont.) http://j.mp/ZuvFuz

NY Review of Books @nybooks · Jun 6
“…to which they were subjected while held in the @CIA program, either singly or in combination, constituted torture.” http://j.mp/ZuvFuz
https://twitter.com/nybooks

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/cia-twitter-new-york-review-books-attack

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New York Review of Books slams CIA with Twitter attack (Original Post) octoberlib Jun 2014 OP
Excellent. Hissyspit Jun 2014 #1
Bravo for the New Your Review of Books. nt Hekate Jun 2014 #2
K&R woo me with science Jun 2014 #3
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