Senate Torture Report: Detainees Subjected To Rectal Feeding (READ)

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks after a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2014, as the panel votes to approve declassifying part of a sec... Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks after a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2014, as the panel votes to approve declassifying part of a secret report on Bush-era interrogations of terrorism suspects puts the onus on the CIA and a reluctant White House to speed the release of one of the most definitive accounts about the government's actions after the 9/11 attacks. Members of the intelligence community raised concerns that the committee failed to interview top spy agency officials who had authorized or supervised the brutal interrogations. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) MORE LESS

December 9, 2014 11:28 a.m.

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The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released its report on CIA torture techniques, according to an analysis published by The Daily Beast.

The report reveals that detainees were subjected to “rectal feeding” and “rectal hydration” even if they did not have medical need.

According to the report, the CIA may have waterboarded more than the three prisoners the agency admitted to have subjected to the torture technique. The report details that waterboarding sometimes led to vomiting and convulsions.

The committee also found that the use of these techniques did not produce significant intelligence about terrorist attacks. The Senate committee argues that the information revealed through torture could have been obtained through other means.

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Senate Intelligence Committee Report On CIA Torture Techniques

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theghostofeustacetilley says:

December 9, 2014

Like in the Human Centipede?

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The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as the creator of the centipede, Josef Heiter, with Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie and Akihiro Kitamura as his victims. According to Six, the concept arose from a joke he made with friends about punishing a ch...
jw1 says:

December 9, 2014

Senate Torture Report: Detainees Subjected To Rectal Feeding

Waiting for blowhard Sean Hannity to step up and volunteer.

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buck says:

December 9, 2014

What I’m impressed with is the obvious attention to the systematic methodologies used to constantly monitor the efficacy of the program and all of its techniques. No random of acts of sadism or brutality for the sake of brutality here. Bravo America!
mattinpa says:

December 9, 2014

jw1:

Waiting for blowhard Sean Hannity to step up and volunteer.

If he didn’t volunteer it would still be pretty cool. Not volunteering is an important part of the full experience.
mattinpa says:

December 9, 2014

But seriously, God almighty. We let perverted sadists run amok. Words fail.