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1) Frozen to death
Gul Rahman, an alleged Afghan militant, was arrested six weeks after the 9/11 attacks and brought to a CIA-run prison north of Kabul, known as the Salt Pit (or COBALT, in this week’s report). Rahman’s stay wasn’t a long one, however, on account of him dying less than a month later, from what the Senate committee suspects to have been hypothermia.
2)Rectal feeding
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed "in a forward-facing position (Trendlenberg) with head lower than torso,” then rectally “fed.” Another prison, the report reveals, was given a “lunch tray” of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins, which was “pureed” and anally infused.
3)Insects
According to the Senate panel’s findings, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ OLC) issued a memorandum in August 2002 advising that placing Abu Zubaydah, a suspected Saudi militant, in a “confinement box” with insects “would not violate prohibitions against torture.” That method of interrogation was proposed one month earlier by a contractor, codenamed SWIGERT in the report, who had derived it from a United States military manual but personally lacked any real-world experience with interrogations prior to orchestrating the torture program.
4)Sleep deprivation
the CIA subjected a detainee, Abu Hudhaifa, to“ice water baths and 66 hours of standing sleep deprivation,”then released him because it was realized that, according to the report, “he was likely not the person he was believed to be.” Another inmate, Arsala Khan, reportedly suffered from “disturbing hallucinations” after being kept awake for 56 hours, at which point the CIA determined that he did not appear to be“involved in...current plans or activities against US personnel or facilities.”
5)Threats to Family
CIA officers evoked the families of detainees in order to try and break them down during interrogations, according to the report. Al-Nashiri, whose rectal feeding is described above, was told “[w]e could get your mother in here”and “[w]e can bring your family in here,” CIA records reveal.
6)Prolonged Standing
Throughout much of 2003, the committee found, “CIA officers (including personnel not trained in interrogation) could, at their discretion, strip a detainee naked, shackle him in the standing position for up to 72 hours and douse the detainee repeatedly with cold water — without approval from CIA headquarters.” In one instance cited in the report, a CIA official said of a detainee, "'as far as we could determine,' had been chained to the wall in a standing position for 17 days.”
7)No Accountability
“CIA officers and CIA contractors who were found to have violated CIA policies or performed poorly were rarely held accountable or removed from positions of responsibility,” a portion of the report reads. “CIA managers who were aware of failings and shortcomings in the program but did not intervene, or who failed to provide proper leadership and management, were also not held to account,” reads another excerpt and, on two occasions, “accountability recommendations were overruled by senior CIA leadership,” including the instance in which Gul Rahman froze to death on the cold concrete COBALT prison floor.
8)Truths of Waterboarding
“The waterboarding technique was physically harmful, inducing convulsions and vomiting,”the Senate panel found. In the case of Abu Zubaydah, for instance, the terror suspect became "completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth” when interrogators tried to give the inmate the impression that he was drowning to death. Interrogators then relied on medical officials to revive the man, at which point he expelled “copious amounts of liquid.” Despite nearly killing the man, the Senate probe found that the event “was referenced in emails, but was not documented or otherwise noted in CIA cables.”
Zubaydah, who today resides at Gitmo, was waterboarded two-to-four times a day, the Senate found, which often "resulted in immediate fluid intake and involuntary leg, chest and arm spasms" and"hysterical pleas.”
9)Mistaken Identities and Lost Detainees
According to the information contained in this week’s report, the CIA either lost detainees or outright lied about who was being held at black sites during the Bush administration. Although the CIA said in both public and classified settings that “fewer than one hundred” prisoners were held at those facilities, the Senate committee found that, in actuality, at least 119 individuals were detained by the intelligence agency.
“Internal CIA documents indicate that inadequate record keeping made it impossible for the CIA to determine how many individuals it had detained,”the report reads.
10)Misleading the White House
“The CIA represented to the White House, the National Security Council, the Department ofJustice, the CIA Office of Inspector General, the Congress and the public that the best measure of effectiveness of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques was examples of specific terrorist plots ‘thwarted’ and specific terrorists captured as a result of the use of the techniques,”reads a portion of the Senate report. Nevertheless, the committee’s probe determined that such claims were inaccurate, and that the CIA lied about the effectiveness of the torture tactics for years.
I just hope that CIA guys won’t torture Americans
Gul Rahman, an alleged Afghan militant, was arrested six weeks after the 9/11 attacks and brought to a CIA-run prison north of Kabul, known as the Salt Pit (or COBALT, in this week’s report). Rahman’s stay wasn’t a long one, however, on account of him dying less than a month later, from what the Senate committee suspects to have been hypothermia.
2)Rectal feeding
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed "in a forward-facing position (Trendlenberg) with head lower than torso,” then rectally “fed.” Another prison, the report reveals, was given a “lunch tray” of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins, which was “pureed” and anally infused.
3)Insects
According to the Senate panel’s findings, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ OLC) issued a memorandum in August 2002 advising that placing Abu Zubaydah, a suspected Saudi militant, in a “confinement box” with insects “would not violate prohibitions against torture.” That method of interrogation was proposed one month earlier by a contractor, codenamed SWIGERT in the report, who had derived it from a United States military manual but personally lacked any real-world experience with interrogations prior to orchestrating the torture program.
4)Sleep deprivation
the CIA subjected a detainee, Abu Hudhaifa, to“ice water baths and 66 hours of standing sleep deprivation,”then released him because it was realized that, according to the report, “he was likely not the person he was believed to be.” Another inmate, Arsala Khan, reportedly suffered from “disturbing hallucinations” after being kept awake for 56 hours, at which point the CIA determined that he did not appear to be“involved in...current plans or activities against US personnel or facilities.”
5)Threats to Family
CIA officers evoked the families of detainees in order to try and break them down during interrogations, according to the report. Al-Nashiri, whose rectal feeding is described above, was told “[w]e could get your mother in here”and “[w]e can bring your family in here,” CIA records reveal.
6)Prolonged Standing
Throughout much of 2003, the committee found, “CIA officers (including personnel not trained in interrogation) could, at their discretion, strip a detainee naked, shackle him in the standing position for up to 72 hours and douse the detainee repeatedly with cold water — without approval from CIA headquarters.” In one instance cited in the report, a CIA official said of a detainee, "'as far as we could determine,' had been chained to the wall in a standing position for 17 days.”
7)No Accountability
“CIA officers and CIA contractors who were found to have violated CIA policies or performed poorly were rarely held accountable or removed from positions of responsibility,” a portion of the report reads. “CIA managers who were aware of failings and shortcomings in the program but did not intervene, or who failed to provide proper leadership and management, were also not held to account,” reads another excerpt and, on two occasions, “accountability recommendations were overruled by senior CIA leadership,” including the instance in which Gul Rahman froze to death on the cold concrete COBALT prison floor.
8)Truths of Waterboarding
“The waterboarding technique was physically harmful, inducing convulsions and vomiting,”the Senate panel found. In the case of Abu Zubaydah, for instance, the terror suspect became "completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth” when interrogators tried to give the inmate the impression that he was drowning to death. Interrogators then relied on medical officials to revive the man, at which point he expelled “copious amounts of liquid.” Despite nearly killing the man, the Senate probe found that the event “was referenced in emails, but was not documented or otherwise noted in CIA cables.”
Zubaydah, who today resides at Gitmo, was waterboarded two-to-four times a day, the Senate found, which often "resulted in immediate fluid intake and involuntary leg, chest and arm spasms" and"hysterical pleas.”
9)Mistaken Identities and Lost Detainees
According to the information contained in this week’s report, the CIA either lost detainees or outright lied about who was being held at black sites during the Bush administration. Although the CIA said in both public and classified settings that “fewer than one hundred” prisoners were held at those facilities, the Senate committee found that, in actuality, at least 119 individuals were detained by the intelligence agency.
“Internal CIA documents indicate that inadequate record keeping made it impossible for the CIA to determine how many individuals it had detained,”the report reads.
10)Misleading the White House
“The CIA represented to the White House, the National Security Council, the Department ofJustice, the CIA Office of Inspector General, the Congress and the public that the best measure of effectiveness of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques was examples of specific terrorist plots ‘thwarted’ and specific terrorists captured as a result of the use of the techniques,”reads a portion of the Senate report. Nevertheless, the committee’s probe determined that such claims were inaccurate, and that the CIA lied about the effectiveness of the torture tactics for years.
I just hope that CIA guys won’t torture Americans
