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Secret government programs11/30/2023 A series of Department of Justice memoranda authorized torture methods that the CIA applied on detainees.At least 136 individuals were reportedly extraordinarily rendered or secretly detained by the CIA and at least 54 governments reportedly participated in the CIA’s secret detention and extraordinary rendition program classified government documents may reveal many more.Here are 20 additional facts from the new report that expose just how brutal and mistaken the program was: To date, the United States and the vast majority of the other governments involved-more than 50 in all-have refused to acknowledge their participation, compensate the victims, or hold accountable those most responsible for the program and its abuses. But, as described in the Open Society Justice Initiative’s new report, it stripped people of their most basic rights, facilitated gruesome forms of torture, at times captured the wrong people, and debased the United States’ human rights reputation world-wide. The program was intended to protect America. Extraordinary rendition is the transfer-without legal process-of a detainee to the custody of a foreign government for purposes of detention and interrogation. After the attacks against the United States of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency conspired with dozens of governments to build a secret extraordinary rendition and detention program that spanned the globe.
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