Some of the horrors meted out by brutal thugs at the CIA have come to light in a Senate report

The CIA’s torture program has been branded as brutal and ineffective, according to a new report.

A report released by the Senate after a four-year, $40 million investigation concludes the CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in the years after 9/11.

It laid bare the full extent of the torture programmes used by the agency, which also lied about how useful the programmes were.

The Senate report showed that the torture of innocent suspects who were not proven terrorists had “regularly resulted in fabricated information”.

Committee chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein, referred to the programme of horror as a “a stain on our values and on our history”.

She said: “During the brutal interrogations, the CIA were often unaware the information was fabricated.”

The report reveals that use of torture in secret prisons run by the CIA across the world was even more extreme than previously exposed.

Torture techniques that were also used against women and children, included rape, rectal feeding, rectal hydration, and cutting a mother’s throat in front of her screaming children.

At least one prisoner died as a result of hypothermia after being held in a stress position on cold concrete for hours. At least 17 detainees were tortured without the approval from CIA headquarters.

When asked about Britain’s involvement in these atrocities, which included many instances of paedophilia against young children, Prime Minister David Cameron claimed 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’.

Other torture methods include prodding a person’s genitals with hot iron rods, waterboarding, forcing detainees with broken limbs to stand for hours, deprived of sleep for up to 180 hours, sometimes standing, sometimes with their arms shackled above their heads and mock executions.

Detainees were also “kept in complete darkness and constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud music and only a bucket to use for human waste”. It was also cold, something the report says likely contributed to the death of a detainee.

Forceful and unnecessary rectal examinations and ‘feeding’ resulted in detainees suffering chronic hemorrhoids, anal fissures and rectal prolapse.

The CIA have been known to use the most brutal and sadistic torture methods on detainees and their children – many of which have not been proven to have committed or charged with any crime

The Senate committee published nearly 500 pages of its investigation into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme during the Bush administration’s ‘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.

Some CIA officers were said to have been reduced ‘to the point of tears’ by witnessing the treatment meted out to one detainee.

The report as evidenced by the Senate calls into question the US and UK’s claims of being “leaders of the free world” and free, and fair democracies.

Of course, there are some who believe that these torture methods are necessary for weeding out terrorists.

But that directly contradicts the evidence which proves that not only was it ineffective, but that it was used against innocent suspects and their children who played no part on the terrorism.

Then there is the uncomfortable fact that a person will admit to anything under torture – regardless of whether it is true or not.

There is also the even more uncomfortable fact that the US have been the biggest sponsors of ISIL and ISIS, if indeed we are being given the complete truth about these groups in the first place.

Obama banned CIA torture upon taking office, but the continuing lack of legal consequences for agency torturers has led human rights campaigners to view the Senate report as their last hope for official recognition and accountability for torture.

Furthermore, the fact that the vast majority of the report remains classified, means that only a fraction of the true horrors that occurred have so far come to light.

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