These 10 "enhanced interrogation techniques" were at the center of mass-media after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. A short list of interogation methods:
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10. Sleep Deprivation
Detainees were kept awake for up to 180 hours, often standing or in a stress position. Sometimes, the detainees' hands would be shackled above their heads. At least five detainees had "disturbing hallucinations" during this technique, and in two of those cases, an intelligence agency continued the practice. One detainee, A.K. hallucinated after 56 hours of standing sleep deprivation in October 2003. After this, came to the conclusion that he "does not appear to be the subject involved in ... current plans or activities against US personnel or facilities." After about a month of detention and interrogation, that intelligence agency recommended he be released to his village, but interrogators instead transferred him to the US military, where he remained in custody for four years.
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9. Water Dousing
At least a dozen more people were subjected to waterboard-like tactics in an intelligence agency custody than the agency has admitted, according to a fresh accounting of the government’s most discredited form of torture.
The intelligence agency maintains it only subjected three detainees to waterboarding. But agency interrogators subjected at least 12 others to a similar technique, known as “water dousing”, that also created a drowning sensation or chilled a person’s body temperature – sometimes through “immersion” in water, and often without use of a board.
Naked detainees were held down on a tarp on the floor, according to a secret report. The tarp would be pulled up around them to make a bathtub. Cold or refrigerated water would be poured on them. In some cases, detainees were hosed down over and over again as they were naked and shackled, standing in a sleep deprivation pose.
Water dousing, however, added an element of hypothermia. Some detainees reported their captors dousing them with “cold or refrigerated” water, then wrapping them in similarly frigid sheets of plastic, keeping their temperatures low.
The intelligence agency maintains it only subjected three detainees to waterboarding. But agency interrogators subjected at least 12 others to a similar technique, known as “water dousing”, that also created a drowning sensation or chilled a person’s body temperature – sometimes through “immersion” in water, and often without use of a board.
Naked detainees were held down on a tarp on the floor, according to a secret report. The tarp would be pulled up around them to make a bathtub. Cold or refrigerated water would be poured on them. In some cases, detainees were hosed down over and over again as they were naked and shackled, standing in a sleep deprivation pose.
Water dousing, however, added an element of hypothermia. Some detainees reported their captors dousing them with “cold or refrigerated” water, then wrapping them in similarly frigid sheets of plastic, keeping their temperatures low.
8. Walling
7. Forced Nudity
This method was used with several of the detainees in conjunction with other techniques. For instance, a detainee would be forced to stand for prolonged periods while nude.
6. Stress Positions
The purpose of these techniques was to stimulate mild discomfort from extended muscle use, according to a description in a government document obtained by the ACLU. Two such positions were used on al-Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah: One had him sit on the floor with his legs stretched out in front of him and his arms above his head; the other forced him to kneel on the floor while leaning back at a 45-degree angle.
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5. Rectal feeding and rectal rehydration
It's exactly what it sounds like — forced sodomy for prisoners who refused food. At least one detainee was diagnosed with "chronic hemorrhoids, an anal fissure and symptomatic rectal prolapse" after being subjected to the technique.
4. The Facial Slap or Insult Slap
3. Rough takedown
This torture tactic, also used without approval, involved officers bursting into a detainee's cell, dragging him outside, cutting off his clothes, covering his head in a hood and securing him with tape. They would then force the detainee to run up and down a hallway while officers slapped and punched him.
2. Cramped confinement
The interrogator puts the detainee in a box big enough to stand up in; the detainee would remain there for up to 18 hours. Detainees were also put in smaller boxes — just big enough to curl up in — for up to two hours.
The interrogator also had the option to put a "harmless" insect inside the small box when the technique was used on Z.A. because he hated bugs.
The interrogator also had the option to put a "harmless" insect inside the small box when the technique was used on Z.A. because he hated bugs.
1. Waterboarding
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