it doesn t mean what they did wasn t torturous. this was clearly torturous behavior. and the fact that you have medical professionals later rngs make ts it in my view just even worse. these doctors were not there to protect the prisoners. they were there to facilitate the torture. and any way you look at it, i mean, i m a physician. i ve taken care of patients for two decades. i ve never heard of rectal feeding as a viable means of feeding patients. just as an aside, the lower gut doesn t absorb nutrients. this is not a viable form of support for the patients. this is from the report on the doctors involvement in rectal feeding where we have cia