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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums16 Awful Abuses From the CIA Torture Report: "Rectal Feeding," Threats to Children, and More:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/cia-torture-report-abuses-rectal-feeding1. The CIA used previously unreported tactics, including "rectal feeding" of detainees (p. 100, footnote 584):
2. CIA officers threatened the children of detainees (p. 4):
3. Over 20 percent of CIA detainees were "wrongfully held." One was an "intellectually challenged" man who was held so the CIA could get leverage over his family (p. 12):
4. One detainee, Abu Hudhaifa, was subjected to "ice water baths" and "66 hours of standing sleep deprivation" before being released because the CIA realized it probably had the wrong man (p. 16, footnote 32):
5. The CIA, contra what it told Congress, began torturing detainees before even determining whether they would cooperate (p. 104):
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10. The CIA torturers told CIA leadership that torture wasn't producing good information from KSM. But CIA leaders didn't relay that information to Congress (p. 212):
11. A detainee was tortured for not addressing an interrogator as "sir"and for complaining about a stomach ache (p. 106):
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16 Awful Abuses From the CIA Torture Report: "Rectal Feeding," Threats to Children, and More: (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Dec 2014
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. Sorry to have to ask, but
WTF is 'rectal feeding'?
Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)2. Pureeing food
And then forcing it into someone's rectum. The body can absorb nutrients this way. It can be damaging though causing rectal prolapse in at least one subject.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)3. ew
I knew I shouldn't have asked.
Thanks anyway..
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)4. CIA threatened to kill KSM's children.
From the ACLU FOIA for CIA 2004 Report, released in 2009.
Also threatened to bring Al-Nashiri's family to detention to get him to talk.
http://media.luxmedia.com/aclu/IG_Report.pdf
on point
(2,506 posts)5. How many died from torture? Like the Iraqi general who died from heart attack?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)6. Even Bush himself winced when shown a photo
and he didn't want to see anymore...
Response to Blue_Tires (Reply #6)
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blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)8. It wasn't a "wince." Maybe an orgasm???
Sociopaths.