The lesser of two evils? "America's Program": CIA Sodomized Prisoners, Lied To All

I mean, after all, as was pointed out to me today, we could have just killed people instead of torturing them. And as Michael Hayden of the CIA noted, "Let me remind you that every member of our intelligence committees, House and Senate, Republican and Democrat, is now fully briefed on the detention and interrogation program. This is not CIA's program. This is not the President's program. This is America's program."

http://gothamist.com/2014/12/09/cia_torture_cheney_sodomy.php

The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million to help systematically torture terrorism detainees, some of whom were completely innocent, by beating them, threatening to rape their family members, and subjecting them to unnecessary "rectal feedings" and "rectal hydrations," so as to "exert total control over the detainee," and lied about it for years to Congress, the White House and you.

A 6,000-page report compiled over a period of five years by the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and released in its redacted and abridged form today [PDF] needs no hyperbole. The report states that the CIA knew that torturing people doesn't work. The CIA tortured people anyway. Sometimes that meant letting a detainee freeze to death (one who happened to be innocent). Other times it meant "hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins [were] 'pureed' and rectally infused."

As one CIA officer put it, "[r]egarding the rectal tube, if you place it and open up the IV tubing, the flow will self regulate, sloshing up the large intestines." Another speculated, "[w]hat I infer is that you get a tube up as far as you can, then open the IV wide. No need to squeeze the bag—let gravity do the work."

(The torturers obviously didn't know what they were doing: "The CIA placed individuals with no applicable experience or training in senior detention and interrogation roles, and provided inadequate linguistic and analytical support to conduct effective questioning of CIA detainees, resulting in diminished intelligence.&quot

Even when the CIA's torture victims (kept in secret prisons some called "dungeons&quot didn't need to be fed, those like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were sodomized with the rectal feeding equipment anyway, to ensure "total control over the detainee."

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