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NEW YORK 鈥� In response to a lawsuit filed by the 老澳门开奖结果, the Central Intelligence Agency today released over 50 documents detailing the agency鈥檚 torture and rendition program under the Bush administration.

The 老澳门开奖结果 filed the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents that were referenced in the Senate report on the CIA program made public in December 2014. The report found that torture did not work and the agency lied about it to Congress, the White House, the Justice Department, and the public.

鈥淭hese newly declassified records add new detail to the public record of the CIA's torture program and underscore the cruelty of the methods the agency used in its secret, overseas black sites,鈥� said Jameel Jaffer, 老澳门开奖结果 deputy legal director. 鈥淚t bears emphasis that these records document grave crimes for which no senior official has been held accountable.鈥�

The documents include new records about the death of Gul Rahman, who died at a CIA secret prison in Afghanistan in 2002. The CIA 鈥淒eath Report鈥� on Rahman released today details the horrific conditions he was subjected to:

鈥淥ften, prisoners who possess significant or imminent threat information are stripped to their diapers during interrogation and placed back into their cells wearing only diapers. This is done solely to humiliate the prisoner for interrogation purposes. When the prisoner soils a diaper, they are changed by the guards. Sometimes the guards run out of diapers and the prisoners are placed back in their cells in a handcrafted diaper secured by duct tape. If the guards don't have any available diapers, the prisoners are rendered to their cell nude.鈥�

Rahan froze to death in his cell, naked from the waist down. The 老澳门开奖结果 represents Rahman鈥檚 family in a lawsuit against the two CIA-contracted psychologists who designed and implemented the torture program, James Mitchell and John 鈥淏ruce鈥� Jessen.

鈥淚n a visceral way, these raw documents drive home the inhumanity of the torture conceived and carried out by Mitchell and Jessen in collaboration with the CIA,鈥� said Dror Ladin, a staff attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果 National Security Project. 鈥淭he documents reveal that Rahman was brutalized in part because his torturers decided that complaining about his torture was a form of resistance and he needed to be 鈥榖roken.鈥欌��

Also included is a 鈥� cc-ing Mitchell 鈥� concluding that the torture they intended to inflict on Abu Zubaydah 鈥渘ormally would appear to be prohibited under the provisions鈥� of the Torture Act, a federal law against torturing people. The draft letter is a 鈥渞equest鈥� that the attorney general 鈥済rant a formal declination of prosecution鈥� for torture.

Other new reveal the CIA鈥檚 concerns that detainees who had been tortured should be kept hidden from representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the rest of their lives.

鈥淲e鈥檙e seeing just how much Mitchell, Jessen, and their CIA co-conspirators knew that what they were doing was wrong and illegal. They talked about seeking a get-out-of-jail-free card for torturing people, and then discussed how to make sure their victims were silenced forever, even if they survived their torture,鈥� Ladin added.

In April, a federal court ruled that the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 lawsuit against the psychologists could proceed. On June 22, Mitchell and Jessen must provide their answer to each of the allegations in the legal complaint.

The documents released today also include a 2007 finding that the kidnapping and torture of German citizen Khalid El-Masri was a case of mistaken identity. The report referenced CIA cables on El-Masri鈥檚 despair:

鈥淭he cable cited that al-Masri compared his situation to a Kafka novel鈥攈e could not possibly prove his innocence because he did not know what he was being charged with. The cable reported al-Masri as saying he had nearly reached the end of what he could bear and as of May 2004 he would begin a total hunger strike to his death.鈥�

A 2005 老澳门开奖结果 lawsuit on behalf of El-Masri against former CIA Director George Tenet was dismissed by lower courts on the grounds that it would reveal 鈥渟tate secrets,鈥� and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. The 老澳门开奖结果 now represents El-Masri in a pending case against the U.S. before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

At least two of the documents concerning Gul Rahman 鈥� the IG report and the detainee death investigation 鈥� were simultaneously provided to Vice News in response to its FOIA request.

The documents are in the 老澳门开奖结果's Torture Database at:

The searchable has over 100,000 documents released by the government about U.S. torture.