CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured

Classified pictures showing CIA captives bruised, blindfolded and
bound raise new questions about US’s willingness to use ‘sexual
humiliation’ on suspects

Spencer Ackerman
Monday 28 March 2016 12.44 BST

The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal.

A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”.

The naked imagery of CIA captives raises new questions about the seeming willingness of the US to use what one medical and human rights expert called “sexual humiliation” in its post-9/11 captivity of terrorism suspects. Some human rights campaigners described the act of naked photography on unwilling detainees as a potential war crime.

Unlike video evidence of CIA torture at its undocumented “black site” prisons that were destroyed in 2005 by a senior official, the CIA is said to retain the photographs.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/cia-photographed-naked-detainees

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1. And this is the type of stuff Trump loves. What a horrible image Trump presents for the US. n/t

[cantbeserious]

2. America Is Officially Dead

eom

[bemildred]

3. That's it, get down there in the mud with them.

I swear, the CIA must be run by some of the most disgusting, ineffectual assholes on the planet. It's a low bar to get under, but they are giving it all we have.