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www.amnestyusa.org/AmericanTortureStory #AmericanTortureStory #ReadTheReport DEAR ACTIVISTS,

The American Story must never be repeated. More than a hundred men were “disappeared” by the U.S. government and held in secret sites throughout world from 2002 to 2008. Many were tortured, humiliated and abused.

We are asking you to act: • in memory of Gul Rahman, who was stripped naked, wrapped in tape, immersed in cold water and shackled. He froze to death in custody. • for , who was subjected to rectal feeding during a three and a half year enforced disappearance. • And the more than 100 men who were “disappeared” into the CIA’s secret detention program. Many were tortured.

To this day, no one has ever been brought to justice for these crimes. In fact, former Vice President Dick Cheney said, “I’d do it again in a minute.”

The Justice Department is refusing to even read this report, let alone investigate the grave human rights violations within it.

Join us this summer to demand action of Attorney General Loretta Lynch. INVESTIGATE THIS #AmericanTortureStory Together, we can help end this American Torture Story.

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LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN 4

JUNE 26 DEMONSTRATIONS & ACTIONS 5-8

JUNE 26 CALL-IN DAY 9

SOCIAL MEDIA & RESOURCES 10

SAMPLE LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL 11

INVESTIGATE THIS STORIES FROM THE SENATE REPORT 12-13 #AmericanTortureStory

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 14-16

3 WRITE LETTERS TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TODAY

The Justice Department isn’t even reading the full Senate Torture Report, despite the fact that it is their duty to investigate, and to hold perpetrators of abuses accountable.

All the public has right now is a declassified summary, but the Justice Department has the full 6,900 page report.

If they won’t read it, YOU can send it to them.

It’ll take no more than a few minutes of your time.

Here’s how you can do it, on your own or with your group at your next meeting or by hosting a letter-writing event:

1) Print and sign the sample letter in the resources section to the Attorney General, or write your own 2) Print a random page of the torture report 3) Put both printed pages in an envelope 4) Send it to:

INVESTIGATE THIS US Department of Justice #AmericanTortureStory 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001

4 DAY OF ACTION: JUNE 26

Demand the Justice Department: Investigate This #AmericanTortureStory

There is nothing more powerful than direct action. We’re calling upon all human rights activists to participate in actions on June 26, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Whether that’s taking part in one of several demonstrations or calling the Attorney General we’re here to support you and have designed several different options to inspire you.

Find your US attorney’s office here: http://www.justice.gov/usao/find-your-united-states-attorney

Turn to the Resources section for longer excerpts from the report that you can use during your action

General rules of thumb:

1) Generate interest in your action with a Facebook event 2) Create conversation around your action by sharing tweets using the #AmericanTortureStory 3) Always have a photographer present, even if it’s with a phone camera 4) Always have a designated individual engaging with the public 5) Have education materials ready: the handout included in the action toolkit, the petition and a sign-up sheet. INVESTIGATE THIS 6) It’s okay to have a small, but effective actions—quality is what matters. #AmericanTortureStory 7) Be creative

5 DAY OF ACTION: JUNE 26 ACTIONS PLANNED BY AIUSA & COALITION PARTNERS

BOSTON, MA June 26, 2015, 10:00 am - 3 pm Location: Dewey Square, Boston Contact: Cynthia Gabriel, [email protected]

CHICAGO,IL June 26th 12:00 p.m. Location: Federal Plaza - 230 S. Dearborn Contact Person: Ernest Coverson, [email protected]

NEW YORK, NY Actions in multiple locations on June 26: 12 pm – 271 Cadman Plaza [US Attorney’s Office, Brooklyn] 2 pm - 1 St Andrew’s Plaza [US Attorney’s Office, Manhattan] 3 pm – 86 Chambers Street [US Attorney’s Office, Manhattan] 4pm – Times Square [43rd Street & 7th Avenue] Contact: Kalaya’an Mendoza, [email protected]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA March and Rally: June 26th,11:00am-1:30pm Location: Begins at San Francisco City Hall, Civic Center Plaza, 1 Dr. Carlon Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102. March to Phillip Burton Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102. Contact: [email protected] INVESTIGATE THIS #AmericanTortureStory WASHINGTON, D.C. Rally: Friday, June 26th, 4-5 pm Location: 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Department of Justice, Washington, DC Contact: Noor Mir, [email protected] Additional Events TBD

6 DAY OF ACTION: JUNE 26 DESIGN AND HOLD YOUR OWN EVENT

LEVEL 1: 1-2 PEOPLE & 1 WEEK OR LESS TO PLAN

1) Have a dramatic reading of an excerpt of the Torture Report in a public space, either somewhere with high traffic or by another target location. Be sure to either hand out materials after you’re done reading or have a friend help. 2) Write out short lines from the torture report in chalk in a public space with the #AmericanTortureStory. Remember to take pictures and tweet them out. 3) Educate the public by tabling on your campus or community. You can even have a photo action with a poster that reads “Read the Report” or “Stop Torture Now” and tweeting photos of participants @TheJusticeDept with the #AmericanTortureStory

LEVEL 2: 2-5+ PEOPLE & 1 WEEK TO PLAN

1) Stop Torture Public Awareness Action: Activists create #StopTorture signs in the style of American STOP signs and position themselves in busy pedestrian location. One activist holds the sign and a partner passes out the petition, copies of the letter, and any other materials.

2) American Torture Story Exhibit: You Can’t Hide The Truth. Activists occupy a public location near your U.S Attorney’s office or in an area with high traffic, set up 1-3 chairs about 10 feet apart and one activist sits in each chair donning a black hood (you can easily use plain black INVESTIGATE THIS cloth or a black t-shirt for this). In front of them will be a poster that has the name of a torture #AmericanTortureStory survivor or victim from the Torture Report along with an excerpt of their experience. This will be a completely silent action. The activists who are not seated will be passing out the petition, the sample letters, and engaging passerby.

7 DAY OF ACTION: JUNE 26 LEVEL 3: 5+ PEOPLE & 2-3 WEEKS TO PLAN

1) Senate Report Delivery: Find the closest target location to you (see Local U.S. Attorneys list). Choose several pages of the Senate Torture Report and either have it printed or transcribed onto several sheets of 18x22 posterboard. Choose a weekday delivery date, preferably in the middle of the week. In either Amnesty t-shirts or business casual, attempt to "deliver" the Senate Torture report to the State Attorney General. Make sure to have a photographer and videographer taking pictures. You will most likely be stopped by security and asked to leave. Comply with all security instructions and continue the action in a silent protest outside the building.

2) Torture Report Projection: Borrow a projector (minimum 2500k Lumen Projector) and project pages of the Torture Report onto a bed sheet or building surface near a target location. Make INVESTIGATE THIS sure to have materials, sample letters, petitions, and ways people can take further action. This #AmericanTortureStory action works best in the evening. Since it’s after office hours, this tactic may be best used in a public location to raise awareness about the situation.

8 CALL-IN DAY: JUNE 26

On June 26, pick up the phone and call the Justice Department, demanding that they investigate this #AmericanTortureStory.

Department Comment Line - 202-353-1555

Sample script:

Hello, my name is [insert name here] and I am calling from [insert location here]. I am a member of Amnesty International.

I am calling to express my concerns about the Justice Department’s disregard of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s secret detention program, known as the “Torture Report.” The Attorney General should order a review of the Senate Torture Report and potential violations of federal and international laws immediately. INVESTIGATE THIS The Department must make sure that it brings to justice in fair trials all persons suspected #AmericanTortureStory of being involved in the commission of crimes under international law, such as torture and enforced disappearance.

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SAMPLE TWEETS

.@TheJusticeDept investigate this #AmericanTortureStory

.@TheJusticeDept, @amnesty activists from [insert location here] just sent you a letter. Will you investigate #AmericanTortureStory

The America I believe in doesn’t torture. @TheJusticeDept, ensure this #AmericanTortureStory doesn’t happen again.

HASHTAGS AND HANDLES SLOGANS & SIGNS FIND YOUR U.S. ATTORNEY - Investigate this #AmericanTortureStory INVESTIGATE THIS @TheJusticeDept - Attorney General Lynch: Investigate #AmericanTortureStory @amnesty Torture #AmericanTortureStory http://www.justice.gov/usao/ #AmericanTortureStory - No Torture In My Name find-your-united-states- #AmericanTortureStory attorney - Don’t Let Them Get Away With Torture

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US Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001

Re: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Review of CIA Detention Program

Dear Attorney General Lynch,

I am writing to urge you to order a review of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s secret detention program (“Senate torture report”) and potential violations of federal and international laws, as one of your first acts as the new attorney general.

The America I believe in does not torture. Yet for years, those who ordered and committed torture, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations in the CIA’s secret detention program have enjoyed impunity for their crimes under international law. Their impunity makes a mockery of the U.S. justice system, including the Department of Justice.

When the administration of President George W. Bush left office in January 2009, no one had been prosecuted for the crimes under international law committed in the CIA secret detention program. This remains unchanged over six years later. The preliminary review conducted by US Attorney John Durham, which resulted in “full criminal investigation” into only two cases, was closed in 2012 with no charges referred. Likewise no-one was charged in relation to the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, which may have contained evidence of crimes under international law. As the new Attorney General, you have the responsibility to break from this shameful past. Indeed, you should know that the Justice Department’s failures to date have had serious ramifications for U.S. compliance with its international human rights obligations to effectively investigate evidence of crimes under international law and bring the suspected perpetrators to justice.

You can and should change course. The Department of Justice should promptly re-open its investigation into CIA interrogations and expand its scope to ensure that it fully complies with international law and standards, covering all CIA interrogations, detentions and renditions. The Department must ensure that it brings to justice in fair trials all the persons, regardless of their level of office or former level of office, suspected of being involved in the commission of crimes under international law, such as torture and enforced disappearance.

It is time to show the world that the United States is serious when it talks about accountability for human rights violations. INVESTIGATE THIS #AmericanTortureStory Sincerely,

Printer-friendly version of this letter at: www.amnestyusa.org/ATS_Letter

11 STORIES FROM THE SENATE TORTURE REPORT & AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Gul Rahman The Senate reports: “According to [Dunbar], there were approximately five CIA officers from the renditions team. Each one had a role during the takedown and it was thoroughly planned and rehearsed. They opened the door of [a detainee] cell and rushed in screaming and yelling for him to ‘get down’. They dragged him outside, cut off his clothes and secured him with Mylar tape. They covered his head with a hood and ran him up and down a long corridor adjacent to his cell. They slapped him and punched him several times. [Dunbar] stated that although it was obvious they were not trying to hit him as hard as they could, a couple of times the punches were forceful. As they ran him along the corridor, a couple of times he fell and they dragged him through the dirt (the floor outside of the cell is dirt). [The detainee] did acquire a number of abrasions on his face, legs, and hands, but nothing that required medical attention.” “Rahman was placed back under the cold water by the guards at [CIA officer 1]’s direction. Rahman was so cold that he could barely utter his alias. According to the [on-site linguist], the entire process lasted no more than 20 minutes. It was intended to lower Rahman’s resistance and was not for hygienic reasons. At the conclusion of the shower, Rahman was moved to one of the four sleep deprivation cells where he was left shivering for hours or overnight with his hands chained over his head”.

Khallad (Walid) bin Attash Khallad (Walid) bin Attash, had a prosthetic leg. The Senate Committee reports: “CIA interrogators shackled each of these detainees in the standing position for sleep deprivation for extended periods of time until medical personnel assessed that they could not maintain the position.” Khallad bin Attash’s one leg “swelled during standing sleep deprivation, resulting in the transition to seated sleep deprivation. He was also subjected to nudity and dietary manipulation during this period”. He said that during his detention in , possibly Detention Site Cobalt, he was held naked, in a small dark cell with “no light, artificial or natural”, with “loud music” playing 24 hours a day “throughout the three weeks I was held there”. He said that was kept “in a standing position, feet flat on the floor, but with my arms above my head and fixed with handcuffs and a chain to a metal bar running across the width of the cell… After some time being held in this position my stump began to hurt so I removed my artificial INVESTIGATE THIS leg to relieve the pain. Of course my one good leg then began to ache and soon started to give way so that I was left hanging with all #AmericanTortureStory my weight on my wrists. I shouted for help but at first nobody came. Finally, after about one hour a guard came and my artificial leg was given back to me and I was again placed in the standing position with my hands above my head. After that the interrogators sometimes deliberately removed my artificial leg in order to add extra stress to the position. For the first two weeks I was held in this position apart from two or three occasions when I was allowed to lie down, but I cannot remember for how long.”

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Hambali On or around 16 September 2003, a CIA interrogator told Riduan bin Isomuddin, also known as Hambali, who had been taken into custody in Thailand and rendered into CIA custody the previous month, that he would never be taken to a court because “we can never let the world know what I have done to you”. About a month after he was transferred to CIA custody, CIA Headquarters approved the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on him. Techniques to which he was subjected before being questioned apparently included being “stripped and shackled nude” and “placed in the standing position for sleep deprivation”. Over a decade later, Hambali has still not been brought to court. Rather, he is still in the classified conditions of Camp 7, Guantánamo, where he has been held without charge or trial since September 2006.

Arsala Khan Arsala Khan, an Afghan national, was subjected to 56 hours of standing sleep deprivation in October 2003 in Detention Site Cobalt (Afghanistan), after which he was described, by reports by the Senate, as “barely able to enunciate, and being ‘visibly shaken by his hallucinations depicting dogs mauling and killing his sons and family.”

Majid Khan From early 2004, after he had been in secret detention for more than a year of what would become three and a half year enforced disappearance, Majid Khan engaged in a series of hunger strikes and acts of self-mutilation. The CIA responded aggressively. In September 2004, after about three weeks of a hunger strike, “the CIA developed a more aggressive treatment regimen ‘without unnecessary conversation’ [i.e. with the detainee]. Majid Khan was then subjected to involuntary rectal feeding and rectal hydration, which included two bottles of Ensure. Later that same day [23 September 2004], Majid Khan’s ‘lunch tray’, consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins, was ‘pureed’ and INVESTIGATE THIS rectally infused. Additional sessions of rectal feeding and hydration followed”. #AmericanTortureStory Majid Khan subsequently “engaged in acts of self-harm that included attempting to cut his wrist on two occasions” [in November 2004 and March 2005]; “an attempt to chew into his arm at the inner elbow” [December 2004]; “an attempt to cut a vein in the top of his foot” [December 2004]; and “an attempt to cut into his skin at the elbow joint using a filed toothbrush” [June 2005].

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INTERNAL DOCUMENT- do not distribute This document must not be distributed as an official Amnesty International statement. It is distributed to support Amnesty International USA’s field organizers, members, supporters and allies in their public work in connection with the June 26, 2015 actions.

1. What’s the deal with CIA torture?

1.1. When did the CIA torture and what happened? Between 2001 and 2008, the US kidnapped and secretly held more than 100 people in “black sites” outside the United States and located throughout the world. The operations were run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a spy agency that had very little experience with detaining people, in a program that was authorized and encouraged at the highest levels of government. These operations were overseen by dozens of doctors, psychologists and lawyers.

In 2005, the Washington Post published reports about these secret “black sites” and the world began to learn horrific details of the torture and other abuses suffered by detainees. President George W. Bush announced in 2006 that he was transferring 14 “high value detainees” who had been in CIA custody to Guantanamo.

President Obama in his first days in office issued an executive order that formally ended the CIA’s secret detention program. The order - Executive Order 13491 (EO 13491) – is now the controlling policy for all U.S. interrogation activities under his administration. The order puts in place needed safeguards to protect against the acts of torture and other horrific abuses committed by CIA personnel in the years after the attacks of September 11, 2001.ℹ

1.2 What kinds of human rights abuses occurred? Under the CIA program, detainees were subject to a wide variety of human rights abuses and crimes under international law. Most, if not all, were victims of enforced disappearance, which refers to the practice of a state (or someone acting with state consent) seizing and detaining an individual while refusing to acknowledge that such a seizure took place. This effectively puts individuals outside the protection of the law, and is firmly prohibited under international law.

The CIA also employed an array of torture techniques, from sleep deprivation to , solitary confinement to forced rectal feedings. Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are crimes under international law.

1.3 What is the “Senate torture report” and what did we learn? In December 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary of its 6,900 page report on torture and other abuses the U.S. government committed from 2001 to 2008. The summary is a small window into the numerous human rights violations that characterized these operations. The full study remains classified as top secret. The CIA provided over six million pages of material for the committee’s review over the course of the five-year investigation.

The executive summary of the Senate report provides horrific details the public did not know and confirms damning evidence already amassed by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations.

• The CIA subjected at least five men to forced rectal rehydration and rectal feeding—the latter was to illustrate “total control over the detainee,” according to the chief of interrogations. • Sleep deprivation as a technique of torture continued even after detainees experienced hallucinations. INVESTIGATE THIS o“[L]iterally, a detainee could go for days or weeks without anyone looking at him,” according to one CIA interrogator. He said that his team found one detainee who “as far as we could determine,” had been chained to a wall in a standing position for 17 days. #AmericanTortureStory o Arsala Khan, an Afghan national, was chained into a forced standing position for 56 hours of sleep deprivation. He was described as “barely able to enunciate, and being ‘visibly shaken by his hallucinations depicting dogs mauling and killing his sons and family.”

• Another man, Gul Rahman, literally froze to death overnight. After “48 hours of sleep deprivation, auditory overload, total darkness, isolation, a cold shower and rough treatment,” the CIA decided he was uncooperative and removed all of his clothes except a sweatshirt. Rahman was then shackled to a concrete wall overnight. The next day, guards found Rahman dead. An internal CIA review and autopsy assessed he likely died from hypothermia.

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2. Why should the Justice Department investigate CIA torture?

2.1. What is “impunity” and why does it matter? Impunity is the failure to hold accountable those responsible for punishable acts. The harsh reality is that most survivors of torture around the world are routinely denied justice. That creates a climate where would-be perpetrators are empowered to return to acts of torture, safe in the knowledge that they will never face arrest, prosecution or punishment.

2.2. Why are you asking the Justice Department to act? Why not Congress or the President? Congress has already acted in significant ways, including by releasing the Senate Committee report – now it’s time for the Justice Department to do its part. The Justice Department, which is charged with enforcing the law and prosecuting misconduct of federal officials, has a responsibility under international law to review any evidence of human rights violations in that report, reopen and expand investigations into CIA abuses and prosecute those responsible if there is sufficient evidence.

2.3. The Justice Department already did an investigation of torture. Why are you asking for it to reopen and expand investigations? In 2009, the Justice Department opened its own investigation (known as the Durham investigation) into CIA interrogations. However, this investigation was extremely limited in scope, effectively granting immunity to officials who acted “in good faith” on the basis of Justice Department memos that were essentially permission slips for torture. It also and consisted of no more than a “preliminary review” into whether federal laws were violated in connection with the interrogation of “specific detainees at overseas locations.”

With these limitations, the preliminary review resulted in full criminal investigations of only two cases, which ended in 2012 with no charges brought against anyone. The scope of the investigation may not have fully taken into account the United States’ obligations under international law. In addition, while the Senate report reviewed the cases of 119 detainees it was able to determine were held in CIA custody, the Justice Department investigation only reviewed the cases of 101 detainees - a full 18 fewer cases than are included in the Senate report.

The Justice Department must review the full report, and should reopen and expand investigations into torture and enforced disappearances, with methods and parameters based on international human rights law standards.

2.4. Isn’t it more important to look ahead, rather than get stuck in the past? Accountability for past crimes *is* an investment in the future. The Justice Department’s failure to prosecute those responsible for torture amounts to a de facto amnesty for crimes under international law. Allowing former torturers to get away with it may encourage them to do it again, or embolden others to do the same.

2.5. Why hasn’t there been progress? Why won’t the Justice Department reopen and expand investigations into CIA torture? There are many possible factors. The Obama administration rejects torture, but has focused on wanting to “look forward” and not “backward.” Effectively this has meant that Bush administration officials involved in torture have not only gotten away with it, some even have memoirs celebrating their role in authorizing torture.

In the aftermath of the Senate torture report, the Justice Department’s response about whether it will investigate new evidence of torture has been inconsistent. It has said that there is no new information in the report that it had not already considered as part of its own investigation. At the same time, officials have also stated that the Department has not reviewed the full INVESTIGATE THIS report. It is unclear whether the report actually has been reviewed, but it is clear that the Justice Department has refused to commit to taking any action. #AmericanTortureStory Recently at the UN Human Rights Council, more than a dozen countries raised concerns about the U.S. government’s failure to hold anyone accountable for the CIA secret detention program. Department of Justice officials briefly discussed the 2009 Durham investigation [see 2.3 for details]. Implied in this response is the position that the Justice Department’s 2009 review is sufficient to meet its international obligation to investigate all cases of alleged torture. However, it is clear that the Senate report included at least 18 additional detainee cases as part of its investigation. At minimum, the Justice Department must read the report and assess the evidence collected by the Senate.

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3. Why is Amnesty International working on this?

3.1. If torture helps save human lives, can’t it be justified sometimes? Torture can never be justified. Under international law, there is no equivocation: torture is never legal. Even in a time of war or threat of war, even in a state of emergency that threatens the life of the nation, even when ordered by a superior officer or government authority, there can be no exemption from this prohibition.

3.2. Why does Amnesty International focus on the rights of people accused of terrorism and why is it focused on the United States? Surely there are better uses of your time and there are much worse countries out there. Amnesty International campaigns for all human rights to be upheld and respected. We hold governments to account in situations where they fail to uphold their obligations to protect all human rights, and the United States is no exception. The U.S. must adhere to the values it professes and fulfill its legal commitments to protect human rights. The former administration deliberately labelled all detainees as terrorists en masse to justify abuses from denial of fair trial, to indefinite detention, to torture and other ill-treatment.

4. Why are you marking June 26?

4.1 What does June 26 commemorate? June 26 is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Organizations across the globe are marking the day as an opportunity to lift up the stories of those who have suffered torture and to speak out against the crime of torture.

AIUSA will be focusing on the imperative of ending impunity for CIA torture. While accountability for human rights violations does not immunize governments from ever committing abuses again, the lack of accountability unmistakably contributes to the risk of future abuses. And while torturers evade accountability, the wounds of the survivors cannot heal and society is poisoned from within.

4.1 What do you want DOJ officials at U.S. Attorneys Offices to do on the 26th? Shouldn't you be talking to DOJ officials in Washington? U.S. Attorneys Offices are part of the Justice Department. The goal of contacting U.S. Attorneys’ offices is to urge local Justice Department personnel to put pressure on their DC counterparts. In states like North Carolina, local U.S. Attorneys can also act by investigating the involvement of local individuals and companies in renditions and secret detention.

The Attorney General and other Justice Department officials in Washington are the ultimate targets; the U.S. Attorneys’ offices are yet another lever to push in pressuring them.

4.2 Has Amnesty International already asked the Justice Department to take action? What has Amnesty done so far? Has the Justice Department responded? Yes, Amnesty International activists have sent more than 50,000 emails, letters and tweets to the Justice Department. These actions follow the release of Amnesty International’s report USA: Crimes and Impunity, documenting the stunning silence from the U.S. government in the aftermath of the Senate report’s release. Amnesty International USA also plans to file a formal complaint with the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General urging the office to review the DOJ personnel conduct in response to the release of the report. To date we have received no response. INVESTIGATE THIS #AmericanTortureStory ℹExecutive Order 13491 is currently the controlling policy for all U.S. interrogation activities. It provides that individuals “shall in all circumstances be treated humanely and shall not be subjected to violence to life and person (including murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture), nor to outrages upon personal dignity (including humiliating and degrading treatment), whenever such individuals are in the custody or under the effective control of an officer, employee, or other agent of the United States Government or detained within a facility owned, operated, or controlled by a department or agency of the United States.” It requires that the International Committee of the Red Cross be notified and given timely access to any individual in the custody or effective control of the United States. It also requires that the CIA close all its detention facilities and bars it from operating future detention facilities; however, this provision is not codified by the current amendment

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