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CIA Releases Its Instructions For Breaking a Detainee's Will
By Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Julie Tate

As the session begins, the detainee stands naked, except for a hood covering his head. Guards shackle his arms and legs, then slip a small collar around his neck. The collar will be used later; according to CIA guidelines for interrogations, it will serve as a handle for slamming the detainee's head against a wall. Ref. Source 8

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When they do it on "24" with Jack it's alright and everyone is cheering him on but when its done for real everyone wants to be a saint.

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Key Democrat Senator Objects to CIA Torture Probe
By Agence France-Presse

A key Democratic senator Sunday criticized a US Justice Department investigation into abusive CIA interrogations of Al-Qaeda detainees as poorly timed, signaling broadening opposition to the probe. Ref. Source 7

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Former UK Ambassador: CIA Sent People to be 'Raped with Broken Bottles'
By Daniel Tencer

The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Ref. Source 1

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What? House Strips Torture Prohibition From Intelligence Bill:

The House Friday morning at the last minute stripped language from a wide-ranging amendment that would have prohibited you.S. Intelligence operatives from engaging in cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Ref. Source 5

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Dems pull provision penalizing intel personnel:

The House approved an intelligence agency bill Friday after Democratic leaders hastily removed a provision that would have imposed prison sentences for personnel using "cruel, inhuman and degrading" interrogation techniques. Ref. Source 5

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'US running intl. Network of secret detentions':

A United Nations report on the existence of secret detention facilities in countries around the world puts most of the blame on the US and its Central Intelligence Agency. Ref. Source 6

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Experiments in Torture: Medical Group Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation

A new report from Physicians for Human Rights accuses the Bush administration of conducting illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on prisoners in CIA custody. The report details how doctors, psychologists and other professionals monitored the effects of sleep deprivation, waterboarding and other so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques on more than a dozen prisoners. It charges that CIA doctors and other medical personnel turned the prisoners into research subjects and collected data in order to study and refine those techniques, but did so under the guise of trying to protect the health of the detainees. Ref. Source 4

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Judge Rules CIA Can Suppress Information About Torture Tapes and Memos:

A federal judge today ruled that the government can withhold information from the public about intelligence sources and methods, even if those sources and methods were illegal. Ref. Source 7