Here's What the CIA Actually Did in Interrogations

The debate over the CIA’s interrogation and detention program became very graphic Tuesday with the release of a Senate report.

After reviewing more than 6.2 million documents, Senate investigators went into detail on some of the specific things done to detainees under the program, which critics say amounted to torture.

Not every method was used regularly and some may have been used only once. But here’s a running list of the methods outlined in the report:

• Forcibly shaving a detainee (p. 72)

• Waterboarding one detainee more than 183 times (pg. 85)

• Pureeing a detainee’s lunch tray of hummus, pasta, nuts and raisins and putting it in his rectum (pg. 100)

• Forcing detainees to stand on broken feet (pg. 101)

• Forcing a detainee to wear a diaper with no access to a bathroom (pg. 53)

• Playing loud music 24 hours a day (pg. 53)

• Handcuffing a detainee to the ceiling for 22 hours a day so he couldn’t lower his arms (pg. 53)

• Forcing a detainee to sit naked on a cold concrete floor (pg. 54)

• Depriving detainees of sleep for up to 180 hours (pg. 165)

• Threatening a detainee with a gun and an electric drill (pg. 69)

• Threatening detainees’ families, including telling one detainee that his mother would be sexually abused in front of him (pg. 70)

• Forcibly bathing a detainee with a stiff brush (pg. 70)

• Keeping detainees in isolation for years (pg. 80)

• Dousing detainees with cold water (pg. 105)

• Keeping detainees in uncomfortably cold temperatures (pg. 105)

• Forcing detainees to subsist on liquid diets (pg. 165)

• Putting insects in a confinement box with a detainee (pg. 409)

• Carrying out mock executions (pg. 59)

• Covering detainees’ heads with hoods (p. 53)

• “Walling,” or slamming detainees against the wall (pg. 40)

• Administering facial and abdominal slaps (p. 42)

• Blowing cigarette smoke into a detainee’s face (pg. 190)

• Dragging a detainee blindfolded through the dirt in a “rough takedown” (pg. 190)

 

Write to Tessa Berenson at tessa.Rogers@time.com.