After the report on the use of torture techniques during the Bush-era War on Terror was released yesterday, Twitter erupted with posts detailing some of the most awful examples of the acts described in it.
Here are a just a few that describe the horrible, horrible details.
CIA interrogator: “We can never let the world know what I have done to you.” #TortureReport pic.twitter.com/KNhakP9Xmq
— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) December 9, 2014
God this report is horrifying. 2 contract psychologists paid $81m for torture techniques. http://t.co/tMA9ZG0fM1 pic.twitter.com/XyvtAU7CzY
— Lydia DePillis (@lydiadepillis) December 9, 2014
@CIA chained a guy to a wall of a dungeon and he died from exposure. because, freedom pic.twitter.com/sruOLQARGk
— Tim Dickinson (@7im) December 9, 2014
This is what Dick Cheney and his fan club described as not torture. pic.twitter.com/a0z5oVMLBM
— Ujamaadam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) December 9, 2014
“Several on the team profoundly affected.. .some to the point of tears and choking up” during Abu Zubaydah sessions pic.twitter.com/fxfHz675uz
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) December 9, 2014
.@CIA provided foreign govts millions of $$ to host secret facilities, asked to “think big” how to use assistance. pic.twitter.com/SMbFLtMSEG
— Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) December 9, 2014
The CIA tortured its own informants by accident. pic.twitter.com/KodHWB7K7N
— max seddon (@maxseddon) December 9, 2014
No surprise that the worst revelations in the #TortureReport seem to be buried in the small print in the footnotes pic.twitter.com/btu4gLid3F
— Anonymous (@AnonyOps) December 9, 2014
“insects placed in a confinement box” pic.twitter.com/4F6H5hPRa3
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) December 9, 2014
Former CIA director Michael Hayden repeatedly lied to Congress. http://t.co/dW1YaP1fzq pic.twitter.com/1DAFft9aI1
— Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) December 9, 2014
Abu Zubaydah basically spent nearly two weeks in a coffin #TortureReport pic.twitter.com/hq8fUfvZLf
— A Christmas Tree (@moneyries) December 9, 2014
#TortureReport covers 119 detainees who were in CIA custody, doesn’t include rendition to torture by foreign govts. pic.twitter.com/FQ8PEA4Ssl
— Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) December 9, 2014