Title: CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on Torture Report: Investigate & Prosecute Those who Flouted the Law
Show: Democracy Now!
Date: 2015-02-09
URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_Dos1XxrYM
Duration: 2:19

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[00:13] so the report comes out and it details a list of torture methods used on prisoners water boarding sexual abuse with broomsticks what they call rectal feeding or rectal hydration um prisoners were threatened with buzzing power drills some captives were deprived of sleep for up to 180 hours at times with their hands Shackled above their heads the torture carried out at black sites in Afghanistan Lithuania Romania Poland Thailand secret site of Guantanamo Naval

[00:43] Base known as Strawberry Fields um as this unveiled it's only you who went to jail around these issues your thoughts on this I feel like I live in the Twilight Zone sometimes when the report came out like most other Americans I was absolutely shocked and appalled at some of the details even inside the CIA we

[01:14] didn't know anything about rectal hydration with hummus no less uh with sexual abuse or sexual assault using broomsticks I mean people didn't even talk about those kinds of things in the in the hallway so I was absolutely shocked hearing it this this goes back to a point I made in 2013 on this wonderful program we need to prosecute some of these cases I understand that reasonable people can

[01:45] agree to disagree on whether or not uh uh case officers who really believed they were carrying out a legal activity should be prosecuted I understand that but what about case officers who took the law into their own hands or who who flouted the law and raped prisoners with broomsticks or carried out rectal hydration with hummus those were not approved uh interrogation techniques why aren't those officers being prosecuted I

[02:16] think at the very least that's where we should start the prosecutions
