Sat 17 Jan 2015
How US Prison Officials Rubber-Stamped a CIA Torture Chamber
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
The CIA’s chief interrogator called it “the closest thing he has seen to a dungeon.”
At the agency’s COBALT detention site in Afghanistan – also known as the “Salt Pit” – detainees were kept in total darkness, shackled to the floors or walls of their cells, and given buckets to dispose of their own waste. (more…)