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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10 appalling findings in the Senate’s torture report
1. The CIA misled executive branch officials, members of Congress, and the public about tortures effectiveness2. Interrogators would deprive some detainees of sleep for more than a week.
3. Detainees underwent waterboarding until they were unresponsive.
4. The CIA force-fed detainees through their rectums.
5. Interrogators threatened to harm the families and children of detainees.
6. An interrogator threatened to sodomize a detainee with a broomstick.
7. The chief of interrogations described one facility as a dungeon.
8. Agency interrogators forced detainees to stand on broken legs and feet.
9. Detainees experienced severe psychological problems.
10. The CIA lied about how many detainees were in its custody.
These are just the bullets.... lots more info at the link:
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/09/10_appalling_findings_in_the_senates_torture_report/?source=newsletter
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10 appalling findings in the Senate’s torture report (Original Post)
boston bean
Dec 2014
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Cleita
(75,480 posts)1. And this was the mild stuff.
I shudder to think what hasn't been reported.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)2. Didn't someone from the Bush admin
say that a few people had an "involuntary mouthwash" type experience?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)3. god.