There were 20 cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In 16, prisoners were shackled to a metal ring in the wall. In four, designed for sleep deprivation, they stood chained by the wrists to an overhead bar. Those in the regular cells had a plastic bucket; those in sleep deprivation wore diapers. […]
Inside the CIA’s Black Site Torture Room by Larry Siems…
Trump Administration Moves to Keep Full CIA ‘Torture’ Report Secret…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has begun returning to Congress copies of a voluminous 2014 report describing the CIA’s harsh detention and interrogation programs, U.S. officials said on Friday. The Trump administration’s move means it could be more difficult for the full, 6,700-page report to be made public, because documents held by Congress are exempt […]
Hiding the Ugly Business of U.S. Torture by Ray McGovern…
Trump Nominates ‘Torture Memo’ Author to Administration Post…
KEEPER: The Torture Database…
Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture…
Nearly 15 years after the United States adopted a program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques now widely considered to be torture, no one involved in helping craft it has been held legally accountable. Even as President Obama acknowledged that the United States “tortured some folks,” …
Court Rules Former Top CIA Officials Must Be Deposed in Torture Psychologists Lawsuit…
A federal judge has ordered that former high-ranking CIA officials will have to sit for depositions in the lawsuit against the two psychologists who designed and implemented the CIA torture program…