The CIA was not very pleased with the Senate Report that released detailed information on the agency's alleged detainee abuse.
"It felt like a 'ticking time bomb' every single day," former CIA officials share on CIA Saved Lives. "In this atmosphere, time was of the essence. We had a deep responsibility to do everything within the law to stop another attack," the group said.
The US Senate has reported that the CIA has been causing unnecessary, harsh interrogations on seven detainees out of 39. According to the Senate, this unacceptable act did not result into extracting useful information and even provoked detainees to lie just to get off the aggressive treatment from CIA officials.
Below are some of the details of abuse that can be found on Senate Select Committee for Intelligence Dianne Feinstein's report:
1. Detainees, according to the report, were deprived of sleep. Khalid-Sheikh Mohammed started sleeping in standing position in March 18, 2003. The reported "sleep deprivation" lasted for an estimated 180 hours or 7.5 days.
2. Rectal feeding and rectal rehydration. The report noted that at least five of the detained suspected terrorists were subjected to these. Based on Feinstein's report, the detainees were also subjected to bathe in ice water. The rectal procedures were said to be used to make the detainees "talk."
3. The terrorists suspects were also subject to "walling." This refers to a detainee is being slammed against a wall.
While many of us have heard of interrogation torture rumors, most of them were never confirmed to be true. There are some allowed measures of torture during an interrogation, according to the Senate Report: facial hold, facial slap, walling, sleep deprivation, attention grasp, stress positions, the waterboard, insects placed in a confinement box, and cramped confinement.
It is after several years that the US Senate has decided to call the aforementioned techniques as forms of abuse.
Former CIA Counter Terrorism Head Jose Rodriguez says most of the items on Feinstein's report did not happen at the CIA. Rodriguez went on to say that they did not force detainees to stand even when they have fractures and he has not heard of anyone water boarding.
According to Rodriguez, they are not denying that their Agency had made some mistakes in the past, but some interrogation techniques were done in order to improvise.
