Former CIA Director George Tenet testifies before the Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee, Feb. 24, 2004 (Photo: Larry Downing/Reuters).

Under George Tenet’s direction, and reportedly with his specific authorization, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is said to have tortured detainees through waterboarding and withholding medicine. Other tactics reportedly used by the CIA include feigning suffocation, “stress positions,” light and noise bombardment, sleep deprivation, and making detainees believe they were in the hands of governments that routinely torture. Under Director Tenet, the CIA “rendered” detainees to other governments which tortured the detainees.

Under Director Tenet’s direction, the CIA also put detainees beyond the protection of the law, in secret locations in which they were rendered completely defenseless, with no resource or remedy whatsoever, with no contact with the outside world, and completely at the mercy of their captors. These detainees, in long-term incommunicado detention, have effectively been “disappeared.”

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