The Torture Report



Senate Intelligence Committee's Report (USA) was permitted to published a 10% summary of its report on the CIA's torture program.
To get a sense of the gravity of the abuses here are the "TOP 15",  detailed by this (90% censored) report. !


1. CIA put hummus in detainees rectums

 2. CIA forced detainees to stand on broken feet

 3. CIA threatened to rape mothers of detainees

 

4. CIA waterboarded one detainee at least 183 times

 5. CIA nearly drowned to death two detainees during their sessions

 

6.      A Detainee lost his left eye while in CIA custody

 7.     CIA held torture sessions knowing they'd worsen detainees' injuries

 8.CIA kept detainees awake for as long as 180 hours (over a week)

 9. Verified CIA killing of at least one person under torture

 10. Some CIA interrogators objected to the tortures

(but were ordered to keep going by senior officials)

 11. At least 26 out of 119 known detainees were wrongfully held

 12. CIA lied to the White House about the effectiveness of torture

 13. CIA refused to vet participants in the torture program who had admitted to sexual assault

 14. Officials at the CIA refused to impose disciplinary sanctions on interrogators involved in Killings of detainees

 15.The CIA tortured people before they even tried asking them to cooperate

 

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