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CIA report just the tip of the iceberg

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Former Central Intelligence Agency contractor Steven D Kelley says that what is being covered by the media about CIA torture is just “the tip of the iceberg”.

A new analysis reveals that human experimentation was a “core feature” of the spy agency’s torture program.

According to The Nation Magazine, the experimental nature of the CIA’s torture program is clearly evident in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its investigative report.

The CIA hired two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who designed interrogation and detention protocols that they applied to people held in the CIA’s secret “black sites.”

D Kelley says “the sites that these reports were covering are.. surface sites, they are conserved black sites but they are still conserved surface sites as opposed to deep underground sites used in …the ultra secret facilities.”

He went on to say that “clearly so many more humans are used in torture” adding “what we’re hearing about this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

“Once again we have to remember that what’s being withheld about the torture program especially with what happened in Abu Ghraib and specially with what happened to the female prisoners is probably much more explosive,” he added.

Based on the Senate report, the CIA employed brutal techniques like waterboarding, physical abuse, sleep deprivation, mock executions, and threats of sexual abuse to interrogate the so-called terror suspects imprisoned after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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