Bush administration. The number of detainees subjected to these methods has never been authoritatively established, nor how many died as a result of the interrogation regime, though this number could be as high as A Senate Intelligence Committee found photos of a waterboard surrounded by buckets of water at the Salt Pit prison , where the CIA had claimed that waterboarding was never used. Debates arose over whether "enhanced interrogation" violated U.

This by far most common form of abuse is especially easy to spot once the prisoner has been released from prison as the victims exhibit widespread bruises and injuries on their bodies. Numerous victims of torture have reported that the beatings and other torture methods stopped a few weeks before they were due to be released from the camps or penitentiaries in order not to leave behind any external signs of the abuse. Beating as well as other torture methods see below cause wounds, which in most cases are not given medical care or it is given too late.

Parts of the CIA interrogation programme were known, but the catalogue of abuse is nightmarish, especially knowing much more will never be revealed. The full horror of the CIA interrogation and detention programmes launched in the wake of the September 11 terror attack was laid bare in the long-awaited Senate report released on Tuesday. While parts of the programme had been known — and much more will never be revealed — the catalogue of abuse is nightmarish and reads like something invented by the Marquis de Sade or Hieronymous Bosch. Detainees were forced to stand on broken limbs for hours, kept in complete darkness, deprived of sleep for up to hours, sometimes standing, sometimes with their arms shackled above their heads. The report mentions mock executions, Russian roulette.