CIA experimented on humans in black sites: Report

presstv.ir As the United States struggles with the fallout of the recently disclosed CIA torture report, a new analysis reveals that human experimentation was a “core feature” of the spy agency’s torture program. The Nation Magazine says in a report that the experimental nature of the CIA’s torture program is clearly evident in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its investigative report. 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. The CIA demanded that the controversial summary be redacted to obfuscate the locations of the laboratories where cruel human experimentations took place as well as the identities of those who conducted them. The CIA hired two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, to lead the project, according to the report. The duo designed interrogation and detention protocols that they applied to people held in the CIA’s secret “black sites.” to read more: presstv.ir