this is from the torture report. it names him as the first cia detainee to be held at detention site cobalt since he was brought there in september 2002, the way the cia tortured and interrogated him including isolation, total darkness, lowering the quality of his food, keeping him at an uncomfortable cold temperature, playing music 24 hours a day, keeping him shackled and hooded. in addition, he was described as having been left hanging, which involved handcuffing one or both of his wrists to an overhead bar which would not allow him to lower his arms for 22 hours each day for two consecutive days in order to break his resistance. it s also noted that the person who observed him in these conditions and reported back described him as wearing a diaper and having no access to toilet facilities. so they basically hung him from a bar hanging from the ceiling for 22 hours a day, let him urinate and defecate on himself
guy who was still in u.s. custody as of yesterday who only got handed over to the afghans yesterday on the day that the torture report came out. this is from the torture report. it names him as the first cia detainee to be held at detention site cobalt since he was brought there in september 2002, the way the cia tortured and interrogated him including isolation, total darkness, lowering the quality of his food, keeping him at an uncomfortable cold temperature, playing music 24 hours a day, keeping him shackled and hooded. in addition, he was described as having been left hanging, which involved handcuffing one or both of his wrists to an overhead bar which would not allow him to lower his arms for 22 hours each day for two consecutive days in order to break his resistance. it s also noted that the person who observed him in these conditions and reported back described him as wearing a diaper and having no access to toilet facilities. so they basically hung him from a bar hanging from
got handed over to the afghans yesterday on the day that the torture report came out. this is from the torture report. it names him as the first cia detainee to be held at detention site cobalt since he was brought there in september 2002, the way the cia tortured and interrogated him including isolation, total darkness, lowering the quality of his food, keeping him at an uncomfortable cold temperature, playing music 24 hours a day, keeping him shackled and hooded. in addition, he was described as having been left hanging, which involved handcuffing one or both of his wrists to an overhead bar which would not allow him to lower his arms for 22 hours each day for two consecutive days in order to break his resistance. it s also noted that the person who observed him in these conditions and reported back described him as wearing a diaper and having no access to toilet facilities. so they basically hung him from
their own rebuttals to the study. then we page through the case, it s difficult to challenge the notion that the program was mismanaged. you know, this was based on documents, e-mails, memos at the time, and john rizzo was actually on cnn tonight and was asked a question about one of the e-mails that he wrote. and actually said he couldn t quite remember about that e-mail, which is one of the reasons why the e-mails are so powerful. it doesn t rely on someone s memory of what they said at a particular time. this is contemporaneoucontempor. he wrote this on that day about these events. and i want to get to one of the descriptions in this report of how this was run at one of the detention sites. the cia officer in charge of detention site cobalt was a junior officer on his first overseas assignment with no previous experience or training in handling prisoners or conducting interrogations. cia officer 1 was the detention
the e-mails that he wrote. and actually said he couldn t quite remember about that e-mail, which is one of the reasons why the e-mails are so powerful. it doesn t rely on someone s memory of what they said at a particular time. this is contecontemporaneous. he wrote this on that day about these events. and i want to get to one of the descriptions in this report of how this was run at one of the detention sites. the cia officer in charge of detention site cobalt was a junior officer on his first overseas assignment with no previous experience or training in handling prisoners or conducting interrogations. cia officer 1 was the detention site cobalt manager during the period in which a cia detainee died and numerous cia detainees were subjected to unapproved coercive interrogation techniques. and of course, it s no surprise that they didn t have anyone who knew how to do this. the cia wasn t in the business of doing this kind of torture.