Originally published December 7 2005
Intelligence officers reveal torture practices used by the CIA during prisoner interrogations
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
ABC News reports on the latest information gathered from former intelligence officers, as well as current ones, about the CIA's use of inhumane torture tactics in Afghanistan and its many other prisons.
Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since the techniques were first authorized in mid-March 2002, ABC News has been told by former and current intelligence officers and supervisors.
Portions of their accounts are corrobrated by public statements of former CIA officers and by reports recently published that cite a classified CIA Inspector General's report.
The CIA sources described a list of six "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" instituted in mid-March 2002 and used, they said, on a dozen top al Qaeda targets incarcerated in isolation at secret locations on military bases in regions from Asia to Eastern Europe.
1. The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him.
6. Water Boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet.
According to the sources, CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in.
While some media accounts have described the locations where these detainees are located as a string of secret CIA prisons --- a gulag, as it were --- in fact, sources say, there are a very limited number of these locations in use at any time, and most often they consist of a secure building on an existing or former military base.
Several intelligence sources involved in both the enhanced interrogation program and the program to ship detainees back to their own country for interrogation --- a process described as rendition, say that the number of detainees in each program has been added together to suggest as many as 100 detainees are moved around the world from one secret CIA facility to another.
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