After David Cameron's appearance on Question Time last night, one sketchwriter spoke for the most deranged of his colleagues when he couched his description of the interrogation in a tone of antic glee.
Other accounts indicated that the president's staff deliberately shielded him from graphic descriptions of the interrogations.
At the heart of the report are descriptions of the interrogation protocols designed by two former military psychologists, James Mitchell and John Brucee) Jessen, whom the agency hired on contracts as experts on interrogation.
Among the proposed responses to the Senate report is a description of the US interrogation programme as a "mistake" that the US must "acknowledge, learn from, and never repeat".
But other than a chart released by the CIA noting that Pelosi, then the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, and Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla)., then chairman of the committee, had been given a "description of the particular [enhanced interrogation techniques] that had been employed," there was little public evidence to contradict Pelosi's claims.
Her vivid verbatim description of the four-and-a-half hour interrogation, in which she refused to sign a statement, is disturbing.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Testimony opened Monday at the first trial of a Khmer Rouge official, with a detailed description of the internal workings and methods of interrogation in the regime's central torture house.
One detainee who apparently was subjected to some tough treatment provided a crucial description of the courier, according to current and former officials briefed on the interrogations.
Politicians and civil-rights groups across the US expressed shock upon hearing descriptions of off-the-books interrogation at Homan Square, the Chicago warehouse that multiple lawyers and one shackled-up protester likened to a US counter-terrorist black site in a Guardian investigation published this week.
