The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’ -- Trevor Trimm
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’
The CIA’s rendition, interrogation, and detention programs were even more nightmarish than you could imagine.
Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep. A prison so cold, one suspect essentially froze to death. The Senate Intelligence Committee is finally releasing its review of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs. And it is brutal.
Here are some of the most gruesome moments of detainee abuse from a summary of the report, obtained by The Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/09/the-most-gruesome-moments-in-the-cia-torture-report.html
‘Well Worn’ Waterboards
The CIA has previously said that only three detainees were ever waterboarded: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaydah, and Abd Al Rahim al-Nashiri. But records uncovered by the Senate Intelligence Committee suggest there may have been more than three subjects. The Senate report describes a photograph of a “well worn” waterboard, surrounded by buckets of water, at a detention site where the CIA has claimed it never subjected a detainee to this procedure. In a meeting with the CIA in 2013, the agency was not able to explain the presence of this waterboard.
Near Drowning
Contrary to CIA’s description to the Department of Justice, the Senate report says that the waterboarding was physically harmful, leading to convulsions and vomiting. During one session, detainee Abu Zabaydah became “completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth.” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded at least 183 times, which the Senate report describes as escalating into a "series of near drownings."
The Dungeon-Like ‘Salt Pit’
Opened in Sept. 2002, this “poorly-managed” detention facility was the second site opened by the CIA after 9/11. The Senate report refers to it by the pseudonym Cobalt, but details of what happened there indicate that it’s a notorious “black site” in Afghanistan known as the Salt Pit. Although the facility kept few formal records, the committee concluded that untrained CIA operatives conducted unauthorized, unsupervised interrogation there.
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Standing on Broken Legs
In Nov. 2002, a detainee who had been held partially nude and chained to the floor died, apparently from hypothermia. This case appears similar to the that of Gul Rahman, who died of similarly explained causes at a Afghan site known as the "Salt Pit," also in Nov. 2002. The site was also called ‘The Dark Prison’ by former captives.
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Forced Rectal Feeding and Worse
At least five detainees were subjected to “rectal feeding” or “rectal hydration,” without any documented medical need. Others were deprived of sleep, which could involve staying awake for up to 180 hours—sometimes standing, sometimes with their hands shackled above their heads.
Some detainees were forced to walk around naked, or shackled with their hands above their heads. In other instances, naked detainees were hooded and dragged up and down corridors while subject to physical abuse.
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other stuff outlined in article--->
Non-stop Interrogation
Lost Detainees
No Blockbuster Intelligence
Contractors and Shrinks
Lies to the President
Cover-Ups
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/09/the-most-gruesome-moments-in-the-cia-torture-report.html
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and, sadly. quite appropriate. The land of the free, my ass. 
To all on this website who are not American I don't even know what to say to you. There are those of us who did stand up and say no and went to mass protests and voted against politicians who voted for the war, but it did no good. Conservative Christians talk of how America has lost its soul because we are no longer a Christian nation. I agree with them. We have lost our soul but it is not because we are no longer a Christian nation. It is because we kill in the name of God although that is just a mask. We really kill for money and power.
of their parents to compel said parents to inform on the Resistance.
Just a rumor at this point and only alleged to have been done by American and allied mercenaries, not by US armed forces. But with no trials or even criminal investigations, I'll believe it.
USA! USA! USA!
I've read reports that the WH wasn't all that enthusiastic to have this info go public. I don't know how much resistance the WH put up, but the cat is out of the bag now. As a Buddhist, it is a GOOD THING to look at this torture episode honestly and admit that it was deeply inhumane. Bad karma will result from this, and it may take many many years for the bad karma effects to run out. But honestly admitting the wrong and making a commitment to never never never again resort to these tactics is the best way to generate some sort of good out of it.
The very best thing of course, would be to put a few people on trial for crimes against humanity, but I seriously doubt that will ever happen. Obama will probably pardon Bush and Cheney at the end of his presidency. One thing is for sure, Bush and Cheney had better not ever step foot in Europe, because some folks there would not think twice about dragging their asses into the world courts in The Hague.
A shameful episode in our history. 
Ohh what a depressing birthday
big surprise. Hell, certain types and groups of americans have been torturing and murdering certain types, groups and NATIONS of people for centuries, in this country alone, not to mention elsewhere. THIS IS par for the course.
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is how I was among those of us standing against this and fighting against this."
Ditto.
Actual fucking doctors who had taken the oath were part of this. 
The only guy Fearless Leader feared was Mr. Big.
And I didn't even know "rectal feeding" was a thing.
