The CIA: A Secret to the Government

As you all know, the CIA recently released, in short, their interrogation tecniques used against suspected terrorists in the  defense of national security. I have not read the entire 500 pages but i was able to skim over the highlights of the report.

Not cool guys, really now. I get that they might be terrorists and such but come on.

I dont know, but water boarding is some pretty crazy stuff. I you don't know what that is, its placing a rag of a persons face and then pouring water over it which simulates the effects of drowning. There was a case of one man being chained to the wall and soon freezing to death overnight due to the CIA's actions in taking his clothes and turning the temperature down to critical numbers.

Many cases of "rectal rehydration and feeding" which is, well you can imagine. Basically eating in the opposite direction. This would be used to keep the prisoners alive if they had refused to eat. Forcefully keeping people alive in a way.

Oh and sleep deprivation. Yeah, no sleeping. Up to 180 hours without sleep. Most prisoners experienced vivid hallucinations due to lack of sleep. One prisoner was forced to stay awake for 7 and a half days and was kept standing in most of the time. Whenever deprived of sleep, the prisoners were usually shackled to the wall with their hands above their heads.

Two "detainees" had suffered from injuries after being seized. One had a sprained ankle and the other a broken foot. They were then shackled to the wall in a standing position which forced them to wieght on their injured appendages until they collapse under their own pain.
The biggest controversy is that should the CIA be allowed to do these things. Personally, no. Yes, I don understand that they might be terrorists and we must defend the country. But a huge part of America is the integrity and pride we have for being civil. But when things like this are allowed to happen, we seem very foolish.
 Even the United Nations is shunning the United States for carrying out such horrible acts. And to top it off, during the Bush administration, their CIA openly said to congress and the people of America that such acts were not occurring. Basically just full blown lying. The only reason such acts were approved by President George W. Bush was that the CIA bundled the go-ahead with the torture in addition with other simple documents. The president unknowingly skims through and signs off on it all.
I somewhat perturbed at that there are no protests of these horrible actions going on. I mean I know I'm rather upset at the fact that the United States government approved of such "interrogation methods". We should all be appalled at the fact that the CIA lied to the people about the events going on beyond closed doors. It makes you wonder everything else that could be happening in  the United States and the American people have no clue about. Or even a group such as congress for that matter.