The Cold Cell and Rectal Feeding: Techniques Worse Than Waterboarding
Waterboarding got all the headlines, but Kiriakou argues the cold cell — stripping prisoners naked, chaining them to a ceiling bolt in freezing temperatures — and rectal feeding were worse. The latter involved pumping hummus through tubes into detainees specifically to humiliate them by insulting their religious and cultural identity. All of it was approved by the U.S. government.
