Saturday, July 7, 2012

ACLU Torture Database

Somehow I missed this but the ACLU set up a database on the torture files and other torture information at the end of June (on International recognition of torture victims day). you can link to it here.
A couple of interesting new documents relate to the torture of Abu Z.- the man we waterboarded almost 100 times only to figure out that he wasn't the bad ass we thought he was. This one describes the various torture techniques that were being utilized and also describes how during his last waterboarding CIA officials flew in to watch it to help determine whether he had been tortured enough....
Then there is the 2004 CIA inspector general's report....
and finally the report that outlines the combined torture techniques that can be used.