4.4 Senate Armed Services Committee report.4.3 International Committee of the Red Cross report.
4.1.2 Internal CIA assessments of efficacy.4.1.1 Senate Intelligence Committee report.2 Development of techniques and training.1 History of approval by the Bush administration.Senate published around 10% of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, a report about the CIA's use of torture during the George W. In July 2014, the European Court of Human Rights formally ruled that "enhanced interrogation" was tantamount to torture, and ordered Poland to pay restitution to men tortured at a CIA black site there. They declined to prosecute CIA, US Department of Defense, or Bush administration officials who authorized the program, while leaving open the possibility of convening an investigatory "Truth Commission" for what President Obama called a "further accounting". In 2009, both President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder said that certain techniques amount to torture, and repudiated their use. Īmerican and European officials including former CIA Director Leon Panetta, former CIA officers, a Guantanamo prosecutor, and a military tribunal judge, have called "enhanced interrogation" a euphemism for torture. In 2005, the CIA destroyed videotapes depicting prisoners being interrogated under torture an internal justification was that what they showed was so horrific they would be "devastating to the CIA", and that "the heat from destroying is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes ever got into public domain." The United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, stated that waterboarding is torture-"immoral and illegal", and in 2008, fifty-six Democratic Party members of the US Congress asked for an independent investigation. anti-torture statutes or international laws such as the UN Convention against Torture. ĭebates arose over whether "enhanced interrogation" violated U.S. No murder charges have been brought for these or for acknowledged torture-related homicides at Abu Ghraib and at Bagram. Former guards and inmates at Guantánamo have said that deaths which the US military called suicides at the time, were in fact homicides under torture. A Senate Intelligence Committee found photos of a waterboard surrounded by buckets of water at the Salt Pit prison, where the CIA had claimed that waterboarding was never used. The CIA admits to waterboarding three people implicated in the September 11 attacks: Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Mohammed al-Qahtani. The number of detainees subjected to these methods has never been authoritatively established, nor how many died as a result of the interrogation regime, though this number could be as high as 100. In addition to brutalizing detainees, there were threats to their families such as threats to harm children, and threats to sexually abuse or to cut the throat of detainees' mothers.
Several detainees endured medically unnecessary " rectal rehydration", "rectal fluid resuscitation", and " rectal feeding". Some of these techniques fall under the category known as " white torture". A Guantanamo inmate's drawings of some of these tortures, to which he himself was subjected, were published in The New York Times. Methods used included beating, binding in contorted stress positions, hooding, subjection to deafening noise, sleep disruption, sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination, deprivation of food, drink, and medical care for wounds, as well as waterboarding, walling, sexual humiliation, subjection to extreme heat or extreme cold, and confinement in small coffin-like boxes. Armed Forces at remote sites around the world, including Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Bucharest authorized by officials of the George W.
" Enhanced interrogation techniques" or " enhanced interrogation" is a euphemism for the program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Euphemism for program of systematic torture by U.S.