Enhanced interrogation techniques | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:04:13 1 History of approval by the Bush administration
00:10:54 2 Development of techniques and training
00:18:14 2.1 Central Intelligence Agency
00:21:32 2.2 Defense Intelligence Agency
00:25:23 2.3 U.S. Armed Forces
00:28:38 3 Initial reports and complaints
00:31:16 4 Public positions and reactions
00:36:51 4.1 Effectiveness and reliability
00:37:01 4.1.1 Senate Intelligence Committee report
00:45:05 4.1.2 CIA assessment on efficacy of EITs
00:46:09 4.2 Destruction of videotapes
00:48:42 4.3 International Committee of the Red Cross report
00:51:15 4.4 Senate Armed Services Committee report
00:53:15 4.5 Comparison to the Gestapo interrogation method called 'Verschärfte Vernehmung'
00:54:51 5 Investigation and calls for prosecution
00:55:03 5.1 Request for special counsel probe
00:57:02 5.2 United Nations Convention Against Torture
00:58:11 5.3 Binyam Mohamed case
01:00:24 6 Legality
01:00:45 6.1 U.S. government
01:04:55 6.1.1 Subsequent torture memoranda
01:07:18 6.2 International legal bodies
01:08:06 6.3 Human rights organizations
01:09:05 7 Ban on interrogation techniques
01:12:41 8 Decision not to prosecute
01:13:49 8.1 US domestic prosecution refused
01:15:27 8.2 Foreign prosecution possible but unlikely
01:17:14 8.3 Consequence of failing to prosecute
01:18:00 9 Prosecution of John Kiriakou
01:18:44 10 European Court of Human Rights decisions



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"Enhanced interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" is a euphemism for the U.S. government's program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at black sites around the world, including Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration. Methods used included beating, binding in contorted stress positions, hooding, subjection to deafening noise, sleep disruption, sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination, deprivation of food, drink, and withholding medical care for wounds, as well as waterboarding, walling, sexual humiliation, subjection to extreme heat or extreme cold, and confinement in small coffin-like boxes.  Several detainees endured medically unnecessary "rectal rehydration", "rectal fluid resuscitation", and "rectal feeding". In addition to brutalizing detainees, there were threats to their families such as threats to harm children, and threats to sexually abuse or to cut the throat of detainees' mothers.The number of detainees subjected to these methods has never been authoritatively established, nor how many died as a result of the interrogation regime, though this number is believed to be at least 100. The CIA admits to waterboarding three people implicated in the September 11 attacks: Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and Mohammed al-Qahtani. A Senate Intelligence Committee found photos of a waterboard surrounded by buckets of water at the Salt Pit prison, where the CIA had claimed waterboarding was never used. Former guards and inmates at Guantánamo have said that deaths which the US military called suicides at the time, were in fact homicides under torture. No murder charges have been brought for these or for acknowledged torture related homicides at Abu Ghraib and at Bagram.Debates arose over whether "enhanced interrogation" violated U.S. anti-torture statutes or international laws such as the UN Convention against Torture. In 2005, the CIA destroyed videotapes depicting prisoners being interrogated under torture; an internal justification was that what they showed was so horrific they would be "devastating to the CIA", and that "the heat from destroying is nothing compared to what it would be if th ...