The US, the paragon of Civil Liberty elsewhere , is shown its true colors.
Check the document below.
One prisoner froze to death after being left to sleep, without pants, on a cold concrete floor. Another was forced to stand in a “stress position” on broken bones. CIA officers threatened to sexually assault the wife of one detainee, and cut the throat of another prisoner’s mother…
A prisoner froze to death after being made to sit on a concrete floor without pants.
A CIA prison site known as COBALT was described as a “dungeon” and detainees were shackled with “only a bucket to use for human waste.”
Federal Bureau of Prisons staff were “WOW’ed” by the depravity of the COBALT prison.
Torture tactics caused detainees to develop psychosis, leading to hallucinations, paranoia and attempts to self-mutilate.
Five prisoners were subjected to “rectal rehydration” or “rectal feeding.”
Buried in the footnotes, the report mentions that an officer played “Russian Roulette” with a prisoner.
Former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was deeply involved in evaluating the use of waterboarding and “staged burial.”
The difference between a terrorist and a Free State seems to be in their (Believed )Causes.
Citation.
http://www.reddit.com/tb/2os3wc
Click the Link for the Document.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-torture-report-document.html?_r=0
Image Credit.
https://rogerhollander.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/cia-refuses-to-turn-over-torture-tape-documents/
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