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Monday, December 22, 2014

How CIA Torture Has Spread Like a Wildfire Throughout the US Military

http://www.alternet.org/how-cia-torture-has-spread-wildfire-throughout-us-military

AlterNet /  By Alex Kane

How CIA Torture Has Spread Like a Wildfire Throughout the US Military

The Bush officials' lies about CIA torture will haunt us in years to come, says filmmaker Alex Gibney.
December 22, 2014  |   
 
The U.S. Senate summary of the report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 torture program runs 500 pages. It is filled with grisly details on the waterboarding, sexual assault, sleep deprivation and death threats that the CIA subjected detainees to.
But there’s a lot the report does not cover--like how members of the U.S. military also tortured prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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