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Survive his interrogation. after the news and photographs emerged from the united states military detention of iraqis at abu ghraib, the intelligence committee held a hearing on the matter on may 12th, 2004, without disclosing any details of its own interrogation program, cia director john mclaughlin described that nothing was as they depicted where detainees were abused by american personnel. this, of course, was false. cia detainees at one facility described as a dungeon were kept in complete darkness, constantly shackled in isolated cells with large noise or music and only a bucket to use f...

>> only a bucket for human waste. sound bite number four from dianne feinstein and another finding. >> in the cobalt facility i mentioned, interrogators and guards used what they called rough takedowns are in which detainee was grabbed from his cell, clothe cut off, hooded and dragged up and down a dirt hall we're while being slapped and punched. the cia led several detainees to believe they would never be allowed to leave cia custody alive. suggesting zebadaya that he would only leave in a coffin-shaped box. >> now, the cia agents who actually did this stuff will argue that they were authoriz...

The code name cobalt to hide the actual name of the facility. it began operation in september 2002. the facility kept few formal records of the detainees housed there and untrained cia officers conducted frequent, unauthorized and unsupervised interrogations. using techniques that were not and never became part of the cia's enhanced interrogation program. the cia placed a junior officer with no relevant experience in charge of the site. in november 2002, an otherwise healthy detainee, who was being held mostly nude and chained to a concrete floor, died at the

That's 7 1/2 days over a week with no sleep. usually standing or in stress positions. at times, with their hands tied together over their heads, chained to the ceiling. in the cobalt facility, i previously mentioned, interrogators and guards used what they called rough takedowns. in which a detainee was grabbed from his cell, clothes cut off, hooeded, and dragged up and down a dirty hallway while being slapped and punched. the cia led several detainees to believe they would never be allowed to leave cia custody alive. suggesting to him he would only leave in a coffin-shaped box. >> let me begi...

Usually standing or in stress positions. at times, with their hands tied together over their heads, chained to the ceiling. in the cobalt facility, interrogators and guards used what they called rough takedowns in which a detainee was grabbed from his cell, clothes cut off, hooded and dragged up and down a dirt hallway while being slapped and punched. the cia led many detainees to believe they would never be allowed to leave cia custody alive, suggesting to abu zubaydah that he would only leave in a coffin-shaped box. that's from a cia cable dated august 12th, 2002. cia officers also planned t...