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The former US vicepresident Dick Cheney has defended the CIA torture programme as absolutely, totally
justified. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters
told the Guardian that among the most shocking disclosures in the report were
revelations that the US paid more than $180m (115m) to two contractor psychologists
to help establish the programme.
This is the kind of thing that goes beyond horrific, Shah said. It shows exactly how
free the US government felt to commit torture with impunity. Its brazen in its detail and
also in its abdication of legal responsibility the idea that you would outsource to
contractors the design of a programme that at base was about torture and ill
treatment.
The report reveals that use of torture in secret prisons run by the CIA across the world
was even more extreme than previously exposed, and included rectal rehydration
and rectal feeding, sleep deprivation lasting almost a week and threats to the families
of the detainees.
The names of other countries including Britain who cooperated with the US
programme by assisting the rendition of suspects were redacted from the published
report.
Asked about British involvement, David Cameron said the question that a
parliamentary inquiry was dealing with all those issues and that he had issued
guidance to British agents on how they have to handle these issues in future
Torture is wrong, torture is always wrong. Those of us who want to see a safer and
more secure world, who want to see extremism defeated, we wont succeed if we lose
our moral authority, if we lose the things that make or systems work and countries
successful, the prime minister said.
The Senate committee published nearly 500 pages of its investigation into the CIAs
detention and interrogation programme during the Bush administrations war on
terror. The full report is over 10 times longer, but the declassified section is dense with
detail and declassified communications between the officials involved.
Associated Press contributed to this report
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