The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deemd CIA tactics used against terrorism suspects, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, prolonged nudity, and cold water immersion, as constituting torture. The information was contained in a confidential 2007 report originally intended for CIA general counsel John Rizzo, but is contained in an article published in the New York Review of Books earlier this month. The ICRC conclusions were made after interviews with fourteen so-called “high-valued” detainees.
The CIA recently admitted to the destruction of 92 tapes of interrogations of the “high-value” detainees, 12 of which included evidence of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” (EIT). President Barack Obama in January issued an executive order explicitly banning the use of waterboarding and other techniques that violate the Geneva Convention safeguards for prisoners of war.
Source: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/03/red-cross-deemed-cia-interrogation.php
Tags: CIA, International Committee of the Red Cross, terrorists, torture, waterboarding
