The United States has released a heavily censored, and summarized version of a CIA torture report. To put things into perspective, the summary of the report was 500 pages long – while the actual report itself was a whopping 6,000 pages. Add to the summary all the blacked out text, and you wonder what they didn’t tell us – aside from obvious stuff, like all the countries that helped out with the torture, the torturers themselves, etc. What they did tell us, however, is worse than anticipated. Turns out waterboarding really wasn’t that bad of an “enhanced interrogation technique”, when compared to the likes of rectal rehydration, psychological intimidation, a week of sleep deprivation – and so on and so forth. The gist of the matter is that the post-9/11 crackdown of suspected terrorists – which probably included swathes of innocent people, and maybe a few dissidents, who knows – lead to interrogation periods utilizing what is, under what we consider international law, very very illegal. The best part? It didn’t work. It did. Not. Work. Nope. Years of torture didn’t produce any real quantifiable results. Gee, I wonder why. Well, let’s go and check out what they did, eh? First up on the list: rectal feeding. As quoted by the report: “Later the same day, Majid Khan’s “lunch tray”, consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins, was “pureed”, and rectally infused.” Lunch enema, anyone? Well, they actually let you flush the enema out again. This makes it seem like nutrition was absorbed first, and then whatever was left was sent back out. Mm. - See more at: ift.tt/1wBsgfk DatSyn News - CIA torture report finds it does not work
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:20:23 +0000
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