Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond

I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold ... on another occasion, the A/C had been turned off, making the temperature probably over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night. -- E-mail from FBI employee, August 2, 2004Jaffer, Jameel is the author of 'Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond', published 2009 under ISBN 9780231140539 and ISBN 0231140533.