In case anyone missed it, after many years of wrangling, a summary of the report into the CIA 'interrogation' program has been released.
BBC Guardian
It states that:
- the interrogation program was not effective in providing intel that could otherwise not have been obtained
- the methods used were far more brutal than previously believed
- the CIA misled the government about the value of the program and methods used
In particular, we now know that:
- Someone died by being held in freezing conditions - (it was later found out they were being held by mistake and weren't the terrorist it was thought they were)
- People were waterboarded (some people passed out during waterboarding and were waterboarded over 100 times)
- People were deprived of sleep for up to 180hours
- Someone was kept in a 56X76X76cm box for 29 hours
- Someone was kept in a coffin for 266 hours
- People were fed mushed food through their rectums as an intimidation method
- People were kept in pitch black, shackled to walls, with constant loud noise and no human contact for weeks
- Various other methods - drills to head, physical assault, mental assault etc
- A CIA head destroyed all video evidence of the interrogations
It's a sad day. Unbelievably, no one has been taken to court for these crimes against humanity. I mean someone died in custody and they were only their because of mistaken identity!! The UK was complicit too as we helped illegally render people to US sites where they were tortured.
The above is only the stuff we know about - given that all the video evidence was destroyed, we can assume that worse happened that we don't know about.
Does anyone still believe these programs were justified??
BBC Guardian
It states that:
- the interrogation program was not effective in providing intel that could otherwise not have been obtained
- the methods used were far more brutal than previously believed
- the CIA misled the government about the value of the program and methods used
In particular, we now know that:
- Someone died by being held in freezing conditions - (it was later found out they were being held by mistake and weren't the terrorist it was thought they were)
- People were waterboarded (some people passed out during waterboarding and were waterboarded over 100 times)
- People were deprived of sleep for up to 180hours
- Someone was kept in a 56X76X76cm box for 29 hours
- Someone was kept in a coffin for 266 hours
- People were fed mushed food through their rectums as an intimidation method
- People were kept in pitch black, shackled to walls, with constant loud noise and no human contact for weeks
- Various other methods - drills to head, physical assault, mental assault etc
- A CIA head destroyed all video evidence of the interrogations
It's a sad day. Unbelievably, no one has been taken to court for these crimes against humanity. I mean someone died in custody and they were only their because of mistaken identity!! The UK was complicit too as we helped illegally render people to US sites where they were tortured.
The above is only the stuff we know about - given that all the video evidence was destroyed, we can assume that worse happened that we don't know about.
Does anyone still believe these programs were justified??
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